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Date:      Wed, 24 Jun 1998 09:02:31 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        sos@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        joki@kuebart.stuttgart.netsurf.de, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: I want my old binutils back!
Message-ID:  <199806240902.CAA23275@usr08.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <199806231034.DAA14337@hub.freebsd.org> from "sos@FreeBSD.ORG" at Jun 23, 98 03:34:47 am

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> > So my question is: does anyone plan to migrate FreeBSD's binutils
> > to ELF or was part the motivation to switch to ELF the ability to
> > use the original GNU binutils?
> 
> Welcome to a GNUinfected world :)

[ ... ]

> So, we really have no choice as to stick with the new binutils, as
> sad as it might be. Unless someone comes up with an alternative
> preferably under a BSD  licence, THAT would move things around
> quite alot....

TenDRA.

The missing pieces are linker sets and the FreeBSD pieces that should
really be written in assembly, but try to pretend that they don't have
to be by using inlines to make the source code non-portable for no good
reason.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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