Todd Vierling writes:
> Switching to ELF32 would be a nightmare if you were going to try to
> incorporate Linux or SVR4 compatibility options (the former still being
> worked on); both use ELF32, and as many have stated here before, ELF32 has
> no platform identifier to distinguish the various emulations.

Not any more; there is now an informal standard among the gnu compiler
folks sufficient for our purposes.

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