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From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ELF? Date: 29 Apr 1997 20:44:15 -0400 Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab Lines: 27 Sender: joelh@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu Message-ID: <sej9121qqzk.fsf@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.lava.net!news.flex.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!sprint!howland.erols.net!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!ai-lab!usenet Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39967 Peter Mutsaers <plm@lucent.com> writes: >>> PS: I still haven't heard any answer to the question when the ELF >>> format is going to become default one in FreeBSD... >> I hope this won't be an issue in the next time. One of the >> things that really annoyed me about Linux was the utter chaos >> when switching from the weak Linux-a.out format to the Evil >> Linkage Format. I don't want to experience the same thing > 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. Okay, time to ask. I don't design linkage formats, I just link. So, what's the difference between a.out, b.out, ELF, and coff? Thanks, joelh -- http://www.wp.com/piquan --- Joel Ray Holveck --- joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu All my opinions are my own, not the Free Software Foundation's. Second law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation -- core dumped