From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 12 14:37:30 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA21935 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 14:37:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA21928 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 14:37:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id JAA08808; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 09:38:35 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199901122238.JAA08808@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: What are the advantages of ELF kernels? In-Reply-To: <199901122228.PAA06757@usr09.primenet.com> from Terry Lambert at "Jan 12, 1999 10:28:35 pm" To: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert) Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 09:38:35 +1100 (EST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Terry Lambert wrote: > It's also a pity that ELF objects generated on a 3.0 system won't > be usable on a 3.1 (or later, if things go as slow as they have been, > lately) system, since binutils 2.9.1 made a gratuitous change in > the object file layout. Too bad FreeBSD didn't go to 2.9.1 and skip > over the bad format entirely, but whatever. We shipped binutils 2.9.1 with 3.0-RELEASE. We upgraded not long before 3.0-RELEASE was due. The upgrade caused compatibility problems on alpha, but obviously wasn't noticed on i386. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message