From: mcdermot@pele.cs.unm.edu (John McDermott) Subject: Re: Binary compatibility with other *nix Date: 8 Mar 1993 21:10:02 GMT
According to *Open Systems Today* 1 March issue, Borland, IBM, Intel, Lotus,
MetaWare, Microsoft, SCO and Watcom announced the formation of The Tool
Interface Standards committee. They have (ver 1.0 of) a spec for binary
compatability. The article goes on tos say that it is ELF or OMF
and debugging standards are DWARF (un*x) and STI (Windoze NT). OST claims
the spec is free (but they don't give a source!). Mabye we should consider
starting there. It would be a shot in the arm for free software if Linux
were the first to comply...
--john
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