Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1996 11:06:31 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Demand loading (Re: FreeBSD, Zappa & PCI) Message-ID: <2840.820749991@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 04 Jan 1996 10:39:45 %2B0100." <199601040939.KAA13231@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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> As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > I don't have any personal antipathy against ELF (I must have missed > > Joerg's original post - I've only seen references in follow-ups) I > > just have an antipathy against: > > > > 1. Adopting new technologies for the apparent sake of it, and > > especially when they're going to be *really painful* in the > > transition. > > We could learn from Linux. I don't see why one has to make it that > painful. > > If it can't be done without breaking backwards compatibility, i'm > against it. (Read this: a.out binaries have to run in the new > environment as well, at the only added cost of another shlib that's > bloating the RAM.) I don't see why this should break anything. We just have to decide that we can load both elf & a.out shlibs. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.
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