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From: ag@cbmvax.commodore.com (Keith Gabryelski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: UNIX sys V4.0
Message-ID: <15290@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 20 Oct 90 18:24:53 GMT
References: <15271@cbmvax.commodore.com> <Oct.19.21.05.49.1990.9272@pilot.njin.net>
Reply-To: ag@cbmvax.commodore.com (Keith Gabryelski)
Organization: Commodore-Amiga Unix; West Chester, PA
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In article <Oct.19.21.05.49.1990.9272@pilot.njin.net> limonce@pilot.njin.net
(Tom Limoncelli) writes:
>In article <15271@cbmvax.commodore.com> ag@cbmvax.commodore.com
(Keith Gabryelski) writes:
>> GCC has been modified to deal with ELF executables as well as Position
>> Independent Code.
>
>I'll bite, what is ELF?  (...and where is PIC usable in Unix?)

ELF is the new a.out format used in SVR4.  PIC code is used in dynamic
libraries.

Pax, Keith