Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 13:21:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Ben Black <black@zen.cypher.net>, Brandon Gillespie <brandon@cold.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alpha questions.. Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.93.970513131908.408u-100000@gnostic.cynic.net> In-Reply-To: <E0wPbPv-0007Dp-00@rover.village.org>
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On Thu, 8 May 1997, Warner Losh wrote: > Yes. Is it worth it? I can't answer. However, the new Alpha port > will use whatever the current tools produce in a relatively bug-free > way. I'd personally like this to be ELF, but could see it being ECOFF > if the ELF tools on the Alpha aren't up to snuff. Currently the GNU tools targeted to the Alpha support ELF quite well. Presumably the ECOFF support still works as well, but ECOFF doesn't support shared libraries. NetBSD-current is using ELF on the Alpha now. I've set followups to freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org. cjs Curt Sampson cjs@portal.ca Info at http://www.portal.ca/ Internet Portal Services, Inc. `And malt does more than Milton can Vancouver, BC (604) 257-9400 To justify God's ways to man.'
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