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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news 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 Lines: 30 Message-ID: <4icphe$187@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <aak2.825887021@ra.msstate.edu> <4hgqn3$6oc@times.tfs.com> <4i9ekr$qc0@stealth.romoidoy.com> <4i9v74$41s@news.rrz.uni-koeln.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 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. ;-)