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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ELF support for FreeBSD ?
Date: 15 Mar 1996 22:04:30 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser) writes:

> And: Yes, I know what ELF is. You don't have
> to explain the technical details. Just let us
> see some shades of the new world, that only 
> those that believe in ELF will be allowed to 
> enter ...

For us who we've already got usable shared libs before, i see three
things that might make ELF interesting (beside of it being a commonly
agreed standard):

 working #ident, so we might drop all this sccs_id[] cruft out of our
  text segments,

 pageable parts of the kernel, since ELF allows for freely usable
  file sections,

 better C++ support than the current mess with the global constructors
  and destructors.

This is just my personal opinion.  Other FreeBSD core members might or
might not share it. :-)

-- 
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. ;-)