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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!nic-nac.CSU.net!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!olivea!grapevine.lcs.mit.edu!ginger.lcs.mit.edu!wollman From: wollman@ginger.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: a.out files Date: 24 May 1994 19:26:30 GMT Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Lines: 25 Message-ID: <2rtkd6$4dk@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU> References: <CqA5BD.Cvn@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: ginger.lcs.mit.edu In article <CqA5BD.Cvn@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>, Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote: >Now a minor flame: if you're going to change the a.out format every >few months I can't speak for NetBSD, but the FreeBSD a.out format has changed exactly once, between 1.0.2 and 1.1, to accomodate shared libraries. We do not plan on making any more changes to a.out. >Oh, and please tell me that the last sentence of the "BUGS" section in >the a.out man page is a joke. a.out is extremely deficient for a lot of architectures (MIPS, Rios, and Alpha just to name three). When a port is created to such an architecture, it will be necessary to support the native executable format of that architecture. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant