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Specifically you can't run a.out binaries anymore and ELF came about in 98. So that's a pretty hard limit. Linux can run binaries that were compiled to the lat

Specifically you can't run a.out binaries anymore and ELF came about in 98. So that's a pretty hard limit. Linux can run binaries that were compiled to the latest binary standard in 98.

pjmlp 3y ago
ELF came out in 1994, kernel 1.0.9. Slackware 2.0 was one of the first distributions to ship it.
sitzkrieg 3y ago
how about the oldest elf on the latest x86 distro available? please dont ruin my contrived abi changes example!