In message <Pine.NEB.4.10.9905211809070.4828-100000@server.duh.org>, Todd Vierl
ing writes:
>On Fri, 21 May 1999, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>
>: Since we are going to move to ELF, and ld.new still does not work for a.out
>: executables on the i386 or the sparc, I would think that more useful work is
>: to:
>: 	- make ELF work on the arm or vax
>
>ELF does work on ARM in later snapshots of binutils.  Lunix's ARM uses ELF.

Yes, that's right.  There are still a couple of quirks at the moment but we're 
slowly ironing them out.

The next release of GCC will include about 99% of the support for ELF on the 
ARM but there are some bits that just missed the deadline for patches.

p.