From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 24 10: 3:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from phoenix.volant.org (phoenix.volant.org [205.179.79.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E121514C0B for ; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 10:03:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from patl@phoenix.volant.org) Received: from asimov.phoenix.volant.org ([205.179.79.65]) by phoenix.volant.org with smtp (Exim 1.92 #8) id 10Przc-0000bj-00; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 10:03:04 -0800 Received: from localhost by asimov.phoenix.volant.org (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id KAA18616; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 10:02:59 -0800 Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 10:02:59 -0800 (PST) From: patl@phoenix.volant.org Reply-To: patl@phoenix.volant.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD FAQ and a.out To: Ian Lance Taylor Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <19990324161643.6912.qmail@comton.airs.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > We did encourage people to move to ELF, because it is better. It > supports multiple sections, permits the alignment of those sections to > be set individually, and it provides shared library support that is as > good as SunOS and is easier to understand. ... It is as good or better except for one thing. It doesn't support minor revision numbers on libraries. I know this can be something of a religious issue; but I still believe that their advantages outweigh any percieved shortcommings. (And I do believe that the transition to ELF was, overall, a good thing.) -Pat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message