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Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 09:26:58 -0800
From: "Brian L. Stuart" <blstuart@bellsouth.net>
To: lucio@proxima.alt.za,
	Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 development
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> to a single underlying (OS) platform, but failed (in a=0A> suprisingly ug=
ly=0A> way) to cater for different target object formats, even=0A> though t=
here were=0A> efforts to do so.=A0 In my opinion - and this is all I=0A> ho=
ld against Plan=0A> 9 - by shoehorning various target object formats in the=
=0A> linker/loader=0A> as options, they spoiled the consistency of the syst=
em.=0A=0AI always had the impression that the object formats=0Aused by the =
various ?l are more for kernels and the=0Avarious formats expected by loade=
rs than for userland=0Aapps.  For userland, I would think the intent is for=
=0Athere to be a single consistent object format (at least=0Afor a given ar=
chitecture).=0A=0ABLS=0A