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From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: GCC v2.7.2 / libg++ v2.7.1 binaries?
Date: 27 Jan 1996 20:57:22 GMT
Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations
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References: <4e74ch$iat@nkosi.well.com> <4e8gfb$qji@crchh327.rich.bnr.ca> <4eappk$75@euas20.eua.ericsson.se>
Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com>
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In article <4eappk$75@euas20.eua.ericsson.se>,
Tim Wilkinson <kontimw@eua.ericsson.se> wrote:
>
>I do hear that when FreeBSD finally starts using the current GNU binutils,
>it'll be when they switch over to ELF format binaries.

Huh?  That's the first I've heard of it.  I have heard that there are
some folks who are working on getting the newest GNU binutils working so
that FreeBSD can run ELF binaries, but I doubt highly that FreeBSD will
switch to ELF as the native format, since ELF doesn't buy us anything
over the current format in the current system, and it makes things a
pain in the butt during the switch-over.  We've already done a binary
format switch-over once from 1.0 -> 1.1, I'd rather not do it again
unless we absolutely have to. :)



Nate
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