Re: The elves are coming

Kai Schulte (sp0005@aixrs1.hrz.uni-essen.de)
Wed, 25 Sep 1996 19:03:18 +0200 (MESZ)


Jon Tombs wrote:

> only the kernel is ELF only, you can still be 100% a.out in userland

Ok, I'll go get the new gcc then... What is the easiest way to set it up
so that it will compile a.out (and link with libc.so.4.6.27 or 4.7.whatever)
by default but generate ELF when asked to?

Sorry about this question not being kernel related but the answer might
be of some interest to people here, so I'm asking it publicly anyway...

Kai

PS: thanks to you all for pointing out that ELF uses the extra register only
when accessing shared objects.