Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!purdue!decwrl!megatest!djones
From: djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: ABI a.out format used with NeXT
Message-ID: <909@goofy.megatest.UUCP>
Date: 20 Oct 88 02:56:54 GMT
References: <7558@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Organization: Megatest Corporation, San Jose, Ca
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From article <7558@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, by dyer@arktouros.mit.edu (Steve Dyer):
> One question that just occurred to me, and wasn't asked publically
> at the "NeXT Day", was whether the NeXT/Mach a.out format for executable
> binaries was the same as the Sun.
> ...

Even *Sun* binaries are not the same as Sun binaries, or so I heard
today.  A fellow told me that the RISC a.out format for sun-4 is
incompatible with Unix (bsd) a.out format, which is what sun-3 uses.
He was steamed because a linker I had written and put in the public
domain would not work on his new machine.  Wanted to know if I had
Sun-4 version.

Sigh.

> Any comments from the knowledgable?

Heh! We ignorant folks like to respond too, you know!



             -- Dave J.