Why can't elves cough?

[Sean Eric Fagan]

In article <6765 at unix386.Convergent.COM> mburg at unix386.Convergent.COM (Mike Burg) writes:
>But the one context of  the original message was abourt vendor support
>for _binary_ ABI's.. - i.e. What is SCO going to do about ELF?

While I know nothing about what SCO is going to do about ELF (really, truly,
and honestly; I don't really care, either 8-)), I would like to point out
that the two issues (ELF and the ABI) are mutually irrelevant.  That is, the
ABI specifies a whole bunch of things, including the COFF file format.  As a
result, if you want to conform to the ABI, you get to use COFF.  For SysVr4,
I think they just end up with different system-call entry points for each
file format (that is, ELF goes through one table, COFF through another,
x.out through yet another, etc.), which I must admit is a very nice thing.

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