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From: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au>
To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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Subject: Re: Standardizing a BSD/ELF ABI...
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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

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