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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.nla.gov.au!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!blackbush.xlink.net!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: FreeBSD ELF support Date: 17 Mar 1996 23:56:53 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4ii8s5$mog@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4i9gov$42s@usenet.rpi.edu> <4icsqp$2fu@austin.polstra.com> 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 jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra) writes: > Some of us are working on providing ELF language tools and ELF kernel > support for FreeBSD. Our reasons vary, I'm sure. Among them are: [...] Two things to add: We could have real #ident's instead of wasting valuable text space (and therefore often enough Real Memory) with static char rcsid[]'s and other crap. This also kills these nasty compiler warnings once and forever. Some far distant day, we could make parts of the kernel pageable once the technology has been settled. Of course, this only refers to the kernel being an ELF file, but we need the same tools anyway. -- 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. ;-)