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From: daver!cheers!greg@uunet.uu.net (Greg Onufer)
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Subject: Re: SunOS 4.1 and Gnu tools
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worley@compass.com (Dale Worley) writes:

>Well, now that we are staring down the barrel of converting to Sys V
>(ick), does anybody out there know how the Gnu tools fare?  I think that
>Emacs shouldn't have any problems, but what about GDB?  Has it been
>converted for the new object format (ELF)?

I think a good question would be "Will a S5R4-based Sun Operating System
maintain binary compatibility with SunOS 4.x?"  That would be a temporary
cure for any problems.

Cheers!greg