Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 10:17:20 +0200 (MESZ) From: "Hr.Ladavac" <lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> To: markd@Grizzly.COM (Mark Diekhans) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What are the plans for ELF support? Message-ID: <199608090817.AA074198640@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> In-Reply-To: <199608090430.VAA18204@osprey.grizzly.com> from "Mark Diekhans" at Aug 8, 96 09:30:43 pm
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E-mail message from Mark Diekhans contained: > > > > Dear FreeBSD Deities, > > What are the plans for moving forward with ELF support in FreeBSD? That is, > will the current a.out format become legacy and all standard libraries be > shipped in ELF? What for? Is there something that the half-assed[1] GNU ELF support gains you that the a.out libraries don't have (remember: we're not Linux, a.out libs are really dynamically--read PIC--linked)? > > Enquiring minds want to know > Likewise. /Marino P.S. -current can execute (GNU|Linux) ELF bins and libs. [1] The second half is much fabled DWARF which nobody seems to use.
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