[1078] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: ELF migration. (Go lemmings go!)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (eichin@MIT.EDU)
Thu Oct 5 16:56:32 1995
From: eichin@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 1995 16:55:11 -0400
To: warlord@MIT.EDU
Cc: jered@MIT.EDU, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199510052020.QAA13783@toxicwaste.media.mit.edu> (message from
Derek Atkins on Thu, 05 Oct 1995 16:20:28 EDT)
> I just feel that ELF provides a lot of good features that don't exist
> in a.out, and we should start encouraging people to upgrade.
"elucidate your feelings."
I only know of
* working dlopen/dlsym dynamic loading support
[good for perl5 and marc-java]
* elf libs are easier to construct
[that's a "So what?" because that only really helps developers, not users.]
I know lots of abstract good things about elf vs. a.out, would you
like to remind me of some concrete ones, that actually matter to users?
