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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!franz.com!usenet From: layer@Franz.COM (Kevin Layer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Will FreeBSD ever support ELF? Date: 10 Oct 1995 15:16:43 -0700 Organization: Franz Inc., Berkeley, CA Lines: 8 Sender: layer@vapor.Franz.COM Message-ID: <oenwlx9v8.fsf@vapor.Franz.COM> NNTP-Posting-Host: vapor.franz.com X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.0.6 It seems that GCC is moving toward making ELF the object file format standard and making shared libraries possible. Given this and *if* there are no plans for FreeBSD to support ELF (I can't remember seeing a discussion about it), then won't this pose a problem for continued use of GCC on FreeBSD? Just thinking ahead to when I test drive FreeBSD 2.1...