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Date:      Thu, 23 Jan 2003 21:09:13 +0100
From:      Michael Ritzert <michael.ritzert@web.de>
To:        debian-bsd@lists.debian.org, "PavelCahyna" <pavel.cahyna@st.ms.mff.cuni.cz>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: glibc vs BSD libc
Message-ID:  <200301232009.h0NK9DO12390@mailgate5.cinetic.de>

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Pavel Cahyna <pavel.cahyna@st.mff.cuni.cz> schrieb am 23.01.03 19:14:41:
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> To David Brownlee: I doubt NetBSD 1.0 binary could run against 
> a NetBSD 1.6 libc. They don't care much about binary compatibility. You
> could not even run a statically linked 1.0 app without some COMPAT_
> option in the kernel, I think.

Like in many other OSes, NetBSD switched from a.out to ELF. This has the consequence that
You need to add some kind of compatibility mode to support both formats - be it switchable (like in NetBSD or Linux) or not.

Michael

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