Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 16:12:20 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra), mjacob@feral.com, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Could somebody please test this patch? Message-ID: <14011.23948.30528.93337@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <199902052103.OAA23537@usr09.primenet.com> References: <XFMail.990205100757.jdp@polstra.com> <199902052103.OAA23537@usr09.primenet.com>
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Terry Lambert writes: > > Thanks for trying it. If you see any anomalies, please let me know. But I'd > > be very surprised if it caused any problems. > > I would be more concerned about binary compatability with OSF > (or "DEC UNIX") software binary compatability breaking as a result > of this change. That assumes that you brought it in from NetBSD > in the first place, of course. > > The assumption in the EABI that specifies ELF and specifies the > offset at which the binary is linked is pretty ingrained in the > binaries. The Tru64 UNIX, (formerly Digital UNIX (formerly OSF/1)) compat code, which I brought in from NetBSD and enhanced to use shared libraries, uses its own ecoff image activation routine. Hence, it should be unaffected by the patch in question. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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