Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 17:44:09 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Demand loading (Re: FreeBSD, Zappa & PCI) Message-ID: <199601031644.RAA20642@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <7741.820667981@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jan 3, 96 03:19:41 am
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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > Can someone explain why we need ELF or its equivalent for this > > to be feasible? It supports any number of file sections. Stock a.out supports only text, data, bss (and symbols). > I don't think we do at all. I don't understand your antipathy against ELF. Why still fiddling with an ancient crock (a.out) when a more modern definition is already there? (I don't say this must happen tomorrow.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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