Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 14 Jan 1997 16:50:37 +0000 (GMT) | From | Philip Blundell <> | Subject | Re: modutils, the next generation |
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On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Martin Buck wrote:
> Sorry, no answer to your question, but I've got another question concerning > modules and their recognition: > Why do modules use .o as extension? Of course, they're object files, but > very special ones, so an extension like .mod would make much more sense,
There's nothing particularly magic about a module. It _is_ just an object file. You could put a magic number on the front, but that would entail having a special program to put it there, and modifying insmod to take it off.
IMHO, there's no need to distinguish modules from anything else. Why do you want to?
phil
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