OSLib and ELF

[David J. Ruck]

On 11 Apr 2007 Erik Groenhuis <e.groenhuis at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> As Tony van der Hoff wrote on 11 Apr 2007:
> 
>> Whilst I would agree that it is desirable to maintain native build
>> capability, if the choice, dictated by developer availability, has to be
>> between adding ELF support and maintaining native build capability, what
>> should we choose?
> 
> Is there realy such a hard choice between a native build capability and
> ELF support, or is this a false dilemma?
> 
> Are there technical reasons why we cannot have them both? Are there
> other reasons?

Given how simple OSLib is, being assembler veneers rather than C code, 
I could knock something up to convert it from AOF/ALF to ELF/AR quite 
easily. Should easily quadruple the size of the binary, if nothing 
else.

Cheers
---Dave

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