From: gumby@tweedledumb.cygnus.com (D V Henkel-Wallace) Subject: Binary compatibility with other *nix Date: 9 Mar 1993 10:26:57
Date: 8 Mar 93 21:10:02 GMT
From: mcdermot@pele.cs.unm.edu (John McDermott)
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...
NT is COFF, which already has strong BFD support. The ELF support has
recently been upgraded, so....the big one is an OMF module for BFD.
Any takers?
Supporting NT would open a wonderful opportunity to take some wind out
of microsoft's sails (and sales?). Plus doing it right would be a
great "up-yours!" for the useless POSIX support in NT.