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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Will FreeBSD ever support ELF? Date: 11 Oct 1995 22:07:57 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 17 Message-ID: <45hbnd$9ln@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <oenwlx9v8.fsf@vapor.Franz.COM> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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? Why should the ELF support of GNU cc/ld mean that a.out support will be removed? Anyway, you're more than welcome to supply patches that make FreeBSD run with ELF binaries. :-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)