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From: layer@Franz.COM (Kevin Layer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Will FreeBSD ever support ELF?
Date: 10 Oct 1995 15:16:43 -0700
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It seems that GCC is moving toward making ELF the object file format
standard and making shared libraries possible.  Given this and *if*
there are no plans for FreeBSD to support ELF (I can't remember seeing
a discussion about it), then won't this pose a problem for continued
use of GCC on FreeBSD?

Just thinking ahead to when I test drive FreeBSD 2.1...