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To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: ELF ABI tagging 
Reply-To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 16:38:30 -0800
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On Wed, 22 Jan 1997 17:22:41 -0700 (MST) 
 Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote:

 > For the people who define the ABI in the first place, or for the
 > follow-on people (like us) who want to tweak it?
 > 
 > Seriously, there's no real reson an ABI could not be standardized
 > other than everyone wants to be the one to define the thing and
 > thinks everyone else should follow the trail that they beat.

Well... Setting the ABI in stone isn't terribly _interesting_.
Besides, I don't _like_ SVR4.  :-)

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