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- The reply from Mark
-
- !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Hi,
- Hmmm I cannot comment on ARMLinux as I am not involved with it or use
- it.
- This seems just to be a question of whether NetBSD/arm32 has ELF support
- or not.I know Linux in general has moved over to ELF and I assume that
- ARMLinux will follow the same trend.
- RiscBSD currently does not use ELF and currently there is no need for us
- to implement ELF support other than to provide support for running Linux
- binaries in Linux compatibility mode.
- I don't know all the reasons that Linux switched to ELF but I understand
- that shared libraries was one of the reasons. Currently we see no
- problems with using a.out for shared libraries. (Note: We do not
- implement
- a.out shared libraries the way Linux did rather we use position
- independant code.)
- NetBSD does have ELF support for some platforms and when ELF is
- available
- for GCC/arm we will have support for it but at the moment it is not
- something I am putting any time into to implement as it will not give us
- anything we don't have with a.out.
-
- If this does not answer all your questions please drop me a line.
-
- Cheers,
- Mark
-
-
- !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-
- I spent the weekend looking at binutils. Arm support seems to be
- reasonable complete. You mentioned that it was buggy. Could you please
- supply more details. I also spent time looking at gcc, I still don't
- think it supports position independent code but Mark's reply would
- suggest other wise I will ask ( If I am going to make a fool of myself I
- may as well do a good job).
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