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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.apfel.de!univ-lyon1.fr!fdn.fr!r2d2.fdn.org!sphynx.fdn.fr!causse From: causse@sphynx.fdn.fr (Philippe Causse) Subject: Re: ELF? X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Organization: individual - paris - france Message-ID: <E90DpK.18p@sphynx.fdn.fr> References: <cmott-2004971630470001@192.168.0.5> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 22:12:56 GMT Lines: 20 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39465 Charles Mott (cmott@srv.net) wrote: : There was a big commotion about a year ago in : the LInux world about switching from the a.out : executable format to ELF (I don't actually know : what the difference between these two formats : is). Is this something that *BSD will have to : go through, or can it be avoided indefinitely? ELF means Extensible Link Format, this is supposed to be something more flexible than the current a.out format... Sarcastic people call it "Expensive Link Format" since ELF objects are usually bigger than their "a.out" counterparts ! More seriously, C++ users should get a benefit out of it but the price to pay is a slightly longer load(&link) time. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- P. Causse http://www.fdn.fr/~pcausse 4.4BSD/X11R6/Motif-2.0/C++ mailto:causse@sphynx.fdn.fr (UUCP)