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Other, more educated persons are welcome to correct me here. :)

On Sun, 9 Mar 1997, Marty Leisner wrote:

> I'm a bit confused about ELF support in freebsd.
> 
> I'm running 10/14 2.2-SNAP.
> 
> Is there ELF support in it (the kernel has all types of ELF symbols).
> 
> If there is ELF support for freebsd binaries, can someone point me to
> a freebsd elf executable?  the gnu binutils support elf, so I should
> be able to use them in a cross-compiling environment.

There is no FreeBSD-specific ELF format, however Linux ELF binaries are
supported when the linuxulator is loaded. 

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
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