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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!howland.erols.net!news.nacamar.de!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ELF? Date: 29 Apr 1997 21:30:39 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <5k5p9v$gv@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <cmott-2004971630470001@192.168.0.5> <5jooj9$9c8@uriah.heep.sax.de> <33609855.6725@desy.de> <29577CEB029DEE7D.15EB282B5ACE579C.9F4A01791A26A597@library-proxy.airnews.net> <3363BCCC.3DF5@desy.de> <87hggsm9d8.fsf@altair.franken.de> <y7z3esb5v7l.fsf@hzsbc259.nl.lucent.com> <5k2ai7$efc$1@news.belwue.de> 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 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39980 schweikh@rubin.noc.dfn.de (Jens Schweikhardt) wrote: > There was some software that used > assembler magic which only worked for a.out and not for ELF (due to > the prepended underscores, IMSMC). This d*mned leading underscore turns out to be one of the biggest problems in the transition. There are more subtle problems, like .align behaving differently in both object formats in the assembler, but the solutions for them are already on the way. -- 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. ;-)