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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
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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. ;-)