On Tue, 1 Feb 2000 08:05:15 -0800 
 Chuck Silvers <chuq@chuq.com> wrote:

 > I've been working with christos on the sparc svr4 emul problem,
 > and we've narrowed it down to a compiler/toolchain issue.
 > I had noticed a while back that the problem only happens when the
 > kernel is ELF, a.out kernels work fine.  as a goofy experiment,
 > I tried converting an a.out kernel to ELF with objcopy, and
 > I was completely amazed to find that this produced a working kernel,
 > svr4 emul and everything.  both of these compilers are egcs-1.1.2,
 > I just updated my a.out gcc/as/ld to the current gnu/dist stuff and
 > svr4 emul still works.  anyone have ideas on how to proceed from here?

Yeech!

Are there any subtle structure alignment differences, etc. in the
ELF compiler target?

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>