Hi Martin, On Sun, 2025-06-08 at 13:47 +0200, Martin Husemann wrote: > Since this thread also hit a non-Linux lists I just want to point > out that we (as in: NetBSD) did not break userland when adapting the > SVR4 ABI including different alignment for ELF. > > I just tested it with some original 1994 NetBSD 1.0 / amiga binaries > on an amiga running NetBSD-current as of earlier today. > > (...) > > So the 1.0 original release a.out binaries still work and a -current > kernel provides the right data (with old alignment and 32bit time_t) > for a stat(2) system call from 1994 using the a.out ABI.
Thanks a lot for answering this question. I was actually wondering whether old a.out binaries would still run on current versions of NetBSD despite the different alignment. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
