Interesting bit from Wikipedia: “Linux's transition to ELF was more or less forced due to the complex nature of building a.out shared libraries on that platfor

Interesting bit from Wikipedia: “Linux's transition to ELF was more or less forced due to the complex nature of building a.out shared libraries on that platform, which included the need to register the virtual address space at which the library was located with a central authority, as the a.out ld.so in Linux was unable to relocate shared libraries.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.out