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#! rnews 1792 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!umdac!newsfeed.sunet.se!news00.sunet.se!sunic!news.sprintlink.net!cs.utexas.edu!news.cs.utah.edu!cc.usu.edu!brandon From: brandon@cc.usu.edu (Brandon Gillespie) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux Message-ID: <1996Apr4.105626.77611@cc.usu.edu> Date: 4 Apr 96 10:56:26 MDT References: <4issad$h1o@nadine.teleport.com> <4jejjt$cdb@park.uvsc.edu> <4jvdiq$nh4@park.uvsc.edu> Organization: Utah State University Lines: 19 In article <4jvdiq$nh4@park.uvsc.edu>, Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> writes: > It's probably worth most of these to open the doors to future > use of additional elf features, however, even if ELF isn't > really as wonderful as Nick & company would have you believe. Why use 'ELF' at all then? Sure there is a call for getting a 'better' binary format, holding up some of the bonuses of ELF as a reason to change. I saw some from the Linux camp talking about making their own extensions to ELF. In my own experience its generally better to not even try half compliance with extensions than it is to simply have your own standard, even if it really is just ELF+extensions. Basically, what is stopping people from developing an improved ELF and calling it something else? Forgive my naive approach here, I have absolutely no knowledge of binary formats other than that of a passing programmer, but I dont see the reason to hold back to ANY system which has acknowledged problems. I also think it would be an applaudable effort of the FreeBSD and the Linux camp could do as was suggested once and work together to created an extended ELF format (whatever it would be named). -Brandon