From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@cygnus.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] solib-svr4.c: Fix set_solib_svr4_fetch_link_map_offsets
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 20:42:00 -0000
Message-id: <3BAC0878.5080308@cygnus.com>
References: <1010920205607.ZM17368@ocotillo.lan> <3BABEFC7.9020100@cygnus.com> <1010922033121.ZM19871@ocotillo.lan>
X-SW-Source: 2001-09/msg00300.html

> I actually went down this path once - and was nearly finished, but at
> the time I thought it might be important for both solib-svr4.c and
> solib-aout.c (or perhaps we'll name it solib-sunos.c)

I suspect the code started out SunOS<5 specific (and hence a.out) but 
over time was re-used by other platforms that used a.out object files 
and sun's shared library techniques.

Andrew