🚀 go-pugleaf

As quoted from <PINKAS.92Mar24181505@caraway.intel.com> by pinkas@caraway.intel.com (Israel Pinkas):
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| I have heard rumors that Solaris will use ELF binaries but that the
| debugging information will be STABS based.  (STABS is the COFF format.
| SunOS for the Sun386i used COFF.)
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STABs are BSD debugging information.  COFF uses syments and auxents, with no
special name assigned to them as a group that I know of.  ELF uses DWARF.  (I
don't want to think about that one :-)

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| Some SysV vendors are not out there with SVR4 yet.
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ONE SysV vendor is not using SVR4 yet.  Of course, it's the one that thinks it
owns the UNIX universe.

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| I do not know if Mt. Xinu and BSD conform to the ABI.
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They don't, and they don't particularly want to.  The used the BSD a.out
format.

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| Last I heard, the FSF planned on using a.out, which does not conform to the
| ABI.  Intel is negotiating this one.
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Fat chance, for the same reason as for Mt. Xinu and BSDI:  they just plain
aren't interested.  Someone may add COFF and/or ELF compatibility and the
Intel ABI to any of the OSes mentioned, and those additions may make it into
future distributions, but they probably won't be officially supported.

++Brandon
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Senior Programmer, Telotech, Inc. (if I may call myself that...)