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In article <1991Mar6.171244.751@rwwa.COM> witr@rwwa.COM (Robert W. Withrow) writes:
>[...] In
>the case of 386s, assuming that GNU will support ELF images (as I
>gather it will and should) 

I doubt that the FSF will want to choose ELF for all GNU OS versions. So
then why use it for 386? For the sake of compatibility to COMMERCIAL 
products? To make life easier for those who want to run Motif? You gotta 
be kidding! I think it's more important that all GNU OS versions be
consistent with respect to file format and system calls (if you want to 
run commercial executables, you will need a SysV system call interface
and I hope and expect (after reading of various GNU docs) that GNU OS 
will be a _real_ UNIX (i.e., BSD)). If the file format is not 
consistent across all GNU platforms, then porting GNU utilities will be
more difficult than with just one file format to support. And I'd
rather sacrifice binary compatibility to SysV.4 than having portability
problems with various GNU platforms.

Followups to gnu.misc.discuss

			bye,
				mike


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