From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 7 22:30:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA02627 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 22:30:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (tokyo-6.ppp.hooked.net [206.169.229.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA02621 for ; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 22:30:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA18853; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 22:30:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 22:30:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: Chuck Robey cc: Terry Lambert , faber@ISI.EDU, Nicolas.Souchu@prism.uvsq.fr, mike@smith.net.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: C and static initialization with unions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Chuck Robey wrote: [..] > Well, it's not the compiler, it's the linker here that's important, and > don't hold your breath on that, GNU hasn't supported our a.out for a > _very_ long time ... I don't think, without FreeBSD modifications, that > they ever did. This, I wonder about. C shared libs seem to work well. Ah well, either way, I'd like to see some better egcs support, ELF or not. > Sooner, we'll probably go to ELF, making it a moot point. - alex | "Contrary to popular belief, penguins are not the salvation of modern | | technology. Neither do they throw parties for the urban proletariat." | | Powered by FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/ | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message