Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 13:14:53 +1000 From: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Standardizing a BSD/ELF ABI... Message-ID: <19980902131453.C21469@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199809011842.SAA02674@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Tue, Sep 01, 1998 at 06:42:12PM %2B0000 References: <199809020111.SAA11738@usr01.primenet.com> <199809011842.SAA02674@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On Tue, Sep 01, 1998 at 06:42:12PM +0000, Mike Smith wrote: >> As a point of interest... >> >> Is FreeBSD ELF binary compatible with NetBSD/OpenBSD/BSDI ELF? >> >> If not, should we consider making changes for the 3.0 release >> to ensure as standard an ABI for BSD-based ELF systems as >> possible? > >You will have to convince the NetBSD people to stop randomly changing >their system calls first. John Birrell discussed this at some length >while I was there last week, and it's about at the point where we are >going to need an ABI shim for them. Is there compatibility for dynamically linked executables when using the runtime host platform's native libraries? David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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