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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!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.apfel.de!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!rubin.noc.dfn.de!schweikh From: schweikh@rubin.noc.dfn.de (Jens Schweikhardt) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ELF? Date: 28 Apr 1997 14:00:39 GMT Organization: Regional Network of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Stuttgart, FRG Lines: 26 Message-ID: <5k2ai7$efc$1@news.belwue.de> References: <3363BCCC.3DF5@desy.de>> <87hggsm9d8.fsf@altair.franken.de> <y7z3esb5v7l.fsf@hzsbc259.nl.lucent.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: rubin.noc.dfn.de Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39874 In article <y7z3esb5v7l.fsf@hzsbc259.nl.lucent.com> Peter Mutsaers <plm@lucent.com> writes: [snip ELF on Linux and BSD] # I was a Linux user at the time of the switch from a.out to ELF, and # I've never understood the fuzz about it. The transition was smooth and # easy, and I don't see the problem when BSD would switch. I was a linux user at that time, too. The switch to ELF was *the* reason to drop it and go FreeBSD. At that time I used to recompile just everything on my linux box. There was some software that used assembler magic which only worked for a.out and not for ELF (due to the prepended underscores, IMSMC). It just wouldn't compile as an ELF executable. Switching a link format *is*not* a trivial task. I hope the FreeBSD folks think long and hard about the cost/benefit ratio before going for it. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the ports broke (without further frobnication). Regards, Jens -- Jens Schweikhardt http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/People/schweikhardt/home.html SIGSIG -- signature too long (core dumped)