> My question remains, is glibc going to eventually support this old cryptic
> a.out format for executables for the few programs that need it, or is this
> cheap hack "The Only Viable Solution"?
No, glibc will never have a.out support, neither in the libc nor the
dynamic loader. Even for the old dynamic loader there was a separate
program which is used for a.out so I don#t really understand where you
problem is.
The ELF loaders are named ld-linux.so.[12] and the a.out loader is
named ld.so.
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