Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 10:36:19 +0200 (MESZ) From: "Hr.Ladavac" <lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at, markd@Grizzly.COM, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What are the plans for ELF support? Message-ID: <199608090836.AA089719780@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> In-Reply-To: <28158.839579412@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Aug 9, 96 01:30:12 am
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E-mail message from Jordan K. Hubbard contained: [ my rather blunt response deleted; please accept my appology for the tone ] > > I wouldn't have phrased it quite that way. > > There's been experimental work underway for months to make FreeBSD > generate native ELF binaries, and you can even get a pre-release kit > for it all from John Polstra, there's just no rush to *replace* any of > our a.out based stuff with ELF. As has already been said in this list > many, many times before (and Mark should learn to use the mail archive > search feature at http://www.freebsd.org, using "ELF" as a keyword > ;-), we'll only switch to ELF if and when it demonstrates a set of > advantages which outweigh the disadvantages of changing. You definitely did phrase it better--a native English speaker, it shows :) Sorry for the offense. /Marino > > Jordan >
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