Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 17:00:27 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: hsu@FreeBSD.ORG (Jeffrey Hsu) Cc: current@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: pccard and -current; a long way to go. :-( Message-ID: <199707300730.RAA19811@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199707300710.AAA14949@hub.freebsd.org> from Jeffrey Hsu at "Jul 30, 97 00:10:13 am"
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Jeffrey Hsu stands accused of saying: > fine with a.out. But, they are neglecting to consider all the > tools we don't have because we don't use ELF. Now that we have Could you enumerate a few of these tools, for the edification of those of us that are ignorant of same? > I see this problem too in conjunction with language tools. My next > JDK port which I'm working on now (not sure if I should do a stable > 1.1.4 port or just skip ahead to 1.2, neither of which the Linux > people have yet) would happily use ELF if it solves the dlsym(RTLD_NEXT) > problem (namely, we don't have it) and it also eliminates a bunch > of kludges in the Java interpreter code that I have to make because > we prepend underscores and the rest of the world doesn't. RTLD_NEXT would help the Willows TWIN stuff as well. So I guess there you have two; win16/win32 crossdevelopment and Java support would both benefit from a move to the ELF toolchain. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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