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Date:      Wed, 23 Sep 1998 17:50:47 +1000 (EST)
From:      John Birrell  <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
To:        imp@village.org (Warner Losh)
Cc:        asami@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, jdp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SOCKS port inspires question...
Message-ID:  <199809230750.RAA04727@cimlogic.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <199809230732.BAA18835@harmony.village.org> from Warner Losh at "Sep 23, 98 01:32:01 am"

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Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <199809230726.AAA11574@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> Satoshi
> Asami writes: 
> : That is exactly what people mean by "compile time" (as opposed to,
> : say, "run time").  If you meant "from inside the compiler", then I
> : don't know of any.
> 
> OK.  I had hoped that you would say "Oh, yes, just check
> __FreeBSD_MUMBLE_ELF__, which is always defined when you are building
> elf executables"...

If you want to test if the compiler is generating elf format, use
#ifdef __ELF__.

If you want a program to test at runtime if it should be doing elf or
aout, call objformat() in libc if using 3.0-BETA or later.

-- 
John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/
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