Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 17:48:43 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Cc: thorpej@nas.nasa.gov, black@zen.cypher.net, brandon@cold.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alpha questions.. Message-ID: <199705090048.RAA29055@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <E0wPcT2-0007IO-00@rover.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at May 8, 97 05:19:20 pm
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[ ... about OLF ... ] > I was unaware that the FSF folks were so dead set against it. The > concetp looks like a very fast way to dispatch the system calls based > on the type of OS that you have (or more generally, whhc ABI the > program conforms to). However, there are ways of doing this with ELF > which aren't exactly fast, but aren't exactly slow either (assuming > that the binaries are branded or otherwise marked). "Well, everyone should conform to one ABI per processor type, and it should be the one we use.". 8-(. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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