Subject: Re: When is ELF coming?
To: None <tech-kern@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Ty Sarna <tsarna@endicor.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/26/1996 03:31:39
In article <CMM.0.90.0.848961609.tls@panix2.panix.com>,
Thor Lancelot Simon  <tls@rek.tjls.com> wrote:
> So we're essentially where we started.  NetBSD can go modify ELF in some
> nonstandard way, producing something that's different and better, but isn't
> quite "standard" ELF and will require toolchain modifications to work.

...and if you're going to have not-quite-ELF, why ELF at all? Given that
it's a fairly flawed format (and not only because of the "which OS?"
issue), being standard is the main thing it has to offer.