Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: portable a.out formats [was ABI a.out format used with NeXT]
Message-ID: <1988Oct25.180109.8791@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <7558@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <909@goofy.megatest.UUCP> <23314@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 88 18:01:09 GMT

In article <23314@amdcad.AMD.COM> tim@crackle.amd.com (Tim Olson) writes:
>Because of this, most vendors extend a.out or COFF to fit their
>requirements.  A fully portable object file format would require a
>general-purpose linker "evaluation language" which allows not only +/-,
>but also <<, >>, &, |, etc.

In case everyone has forgotten, there was an attempt at an IEEE standard
for just such a portable format a few years ago ("MUFOM").  Don't know
if anything's happened with it since.  It looked okay.
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