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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!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.apfel.de!fu-berlin.de!news-ber1.dfn.de!news-lei1.dfn.de!news-nue1.dfn.de!wuff.mayn.de!wuff.franken.de!not-for-mail From: Matthias Buelow <token@altair.franken.de> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ELF? Date: 27 Apr 1997 23:41:38 +0200 Organization: KNF e.V / GeFoekoM e.V. Wuerzburg Lines: 20 Message-ID: <87hggsm9d8.fsf@altair.franken.de> References: <cmott-2004971630470001@192.168.0.5> <5jooj9$9c8@uriah.heep.sax.de> <33609855.6725@desy.de> <29577CEB029DEE7D.15EB282B5ACE579C.9F4A01791A26A597@library-proxy.airnews.net> <3363BCCC.3DF5@desy.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: altair.franken.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39841 Olaf Manczak <Olaf.Manczak@desy.de> writes: > PS: I still haven't heard any answer to the question when the ELF > format is going to become default one in FreeBSD... I hope this won't be an issue in the next time. One of the things that really annoyed me about Linux was the utter chaos when switching from the weak Linux-a.out format to the Evil Linkage Format. I don't want to experience the same thing with FreeBSD again. FreeBSD's qmagic is good, it is much better than Linux a.out so there's not really a need for going ELF. If the C++ compiler is so broken to not being able to support the current linkage format, it's imho better to fix the compiler rather than crying for another linkage format (Well, imho C++ is broken anyway, so who cares). -- --token *the daemon is free!* ``Good morning, doctors. I have taken the liberty of removing Windows 95 from my harddrive.'' - Arthur C. Clarke, imagining the first words of HAL