On Thursday, March 20, 2003, at 08:27  AM, Alaric B. Snell wrote:

>> I suspect that would be a largely fruitless effort.
>
> /me wails and hides from the hatred that can only exist between two 
> rival OS
> projects, or maybe editors.

More like "OpenBSD has nothing to gain from doing so".  Besides, their 
continued use of an obsolete object format (a.out) stands as evidence 
that they're unwilling to change their toolchain.

> Yep, in this case, but for other binary compatability situations?

I think it goes without saying that starting with ELF is pretty much 
better in any binary compatibility situation.

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>