Re: ELF anyone?

On Sun, 24 Dec 1995, Andy Valencia wrote:

> [Ben Black <black@winternet.com> writes:]
>
> >has any thought been given to switching to the ELF format for binaries?
>
> It's come up once or twice.
>
> >the significantly improved handling of shared libraries in ELF over a.out
> >is worth the pain of conversion given VSTa's heavy focus on libraries.
>
> Things seem "good enough" as they stand, and it would burn lots of time to
> just get back to where we started. I've been pretty unenthusiastic about
> the prospect of converting to the executable format du jour. COFF? ECOFF?
> ELF? DWARF?
i would agree if not for the fact that two of the biggest unix systems
use ELF (Linux and Solaris). i think binary format conversion is
something better done sooner than later. ELF has obvious advantages over
a.out...what does it take to make an a.out shared library under vsta?

ben
black@winternet.com
Received on Sun Dec 24 14:27:04 1995