Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 21:33:47 +0000 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Standardizing a BSD/ELF ABI... Message-ID: <199809012133.VAA00458@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 02 Sep 1998 13:14:53 %2B1000." <19980902131453.C21469@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au>
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> >> 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? As far as I'm aware, the library ABI is still very close, yes. John Birrell (jb@freebsd.org) is definitely the guy to talk to about this though. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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