From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 22 16:55:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA15013 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 16:55:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA15008 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 16:55:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA22687; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 17:38:45 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199701230038.RAA22687@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: ELF ABI tagging To: thorpej@nas.nasa.gov Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 17:38:45 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, jdp@polstra.com, dg@root.com, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199701230038.QAA20213@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> from "Jason Thorpe" at Jan 22, 97 04:38:30 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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. :-) Neither do I. On the other hand, having commercial user applications for a UNIX desktop would be a general win for everyone, not just the SVR4 weenies trying to define the standard ABI in such a way as to cause the most catch-up work for their non-SVR4-licensed competition. I would be willing to trade strict ABI control for an extention interface to an ABI over which I have no direct control, and a lot of nice applications being available for purchase at the local Egghead Software or Software Etc., or Softsel, or... Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.