Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 25 Sep 1996 15:15:26 +0100 (BST) | From | Mr S J Greenaway <> | Subject | Re: The elves are coming |
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On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Kai Schulte wrote: > > Pleeeeeease, why can't we keep a.out support in 2.1? Most of us don't have > > RISC cpu's yet, and many ELF things _do_ run more slowly on my 486 and 386. > > Sorry, no can do. > > The a.out linking process is so broken that I really don't want to bother > with it. If somebody wants to test a.out linking and sends me patches, I'll > apply them back eventually, but right now I don't want to bother with the > added complexity of having to worry about strange a.out linking stuff. > > Linus >
Are we confusing 'I want to compile the kernel as a.out' with 'I want to run user programs that are in a.out format' ????
Simon Greenaway
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