From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 8 17:53:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA00120 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 8 May 1997 17:53:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA00113 for ; Thu, 8 May 1997 17:53:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA29055; Thu, 8 May 1997 17:48:44 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199705090048.RAA29055@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Alpha questions.. To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 17:48:43 -0700 (MST) Cc: thorpej@nas.nasa.gov, black@zen.cypher.net, brandon@cold.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Warner Losh" at May 8, 97 05:19:20 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 [ ... 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.