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Date:      Thu, 5 Feb 1998 23:43:32 -0800 (PST)
From:      Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net>
To:        Stephen Hocking <sysseh@workcover.qld.gov.au>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Elves wanted - apply within
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980205233934.5649B-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <199802060526.FAA29002@bne16unx215.workcover.qld.gov.au>

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On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, Stephen Hocking wrote:

> 
> 	What are the plans for moving over to a completely ELF system? This 
> crosscompiling in order to use third party ELF libs is begining to wear a 
> little thin.

I hope with the Sun and DEC Alpha ports of FreeBSD looming on the horizon,
that "native" ELF support will eventually be the default.  However, I
think that you can build world with an ELF target to get a fully ELFable
system, however a few things relying on an a.out kernel will break.

> PS - Will we end up supprting DWARF? Or remain with stabs?

I think both gdb and gcc have support for Dwarf 1 & 2, so there _should_
be support for it.  If you really want to find out, you can always 
try, as it should be as simple as -gdwarf+, however, YMMV.

Linux: The Microsoft Windows(tm) of the Unix(tm) world.

- alex




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