Subject: Re: linux emulation problem
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/19/1996 17:34:43
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>>>>> "Scott" == Scott Reynolds <scottr@Plexus.COM> writes:
Scott> That's preciely the problem. ELF doesn't (currently)
This suggests that there might be a way to do this?
I would have no problem "stamping" my Linux binaries with some
program that adds the right tags.
Scott> is that if you have an ELF executable, it uses the SVR4
Scott> ABI. Currently we attempt to hack around this limitation
Scott> by looking for clues that the binary might have been built
Scott> for a Linux system, but as Jason pointed out, those clues
Scott> aren't always there.
Linux has iBCS support. Does it also have SVR4 support? If so, how
does it distinguish things? Or has the Linux ELF ABI simply become a
superset of SVR4 ABI?
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