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From: graichen@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Will FreeBSD ever support ELF?
Date: 11 Oct 1995 12:48:46 GMT
Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin
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Kevin Layer (layer@Franz.COM) wrote:
: 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...

maybe i've missed something - but the fact that linux moves to ELF does'nt
mean that gcc will no loger be available for other formats 

t

p.s.: FreeBSD has shared libs too
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