This is a paper I wrote for a class in performance analysis during the 
Spring 1995 semester.  It has lots of grammatical and spelling errors
but I have no time now to fix them, nor may even have the impetus to do so,
but I figured that this would be interesting to some people, so I figured 
I'd upload it no matter the problems with it.

Don't take my explanations of aout and ELF systems for truth.  The info
here is what I've been able to guess about from what I have read
of the source as well as a doc entitiled ELF.doc.tar.gz at
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/GCC.

This is all released under the GNU pulic license.

Please if you want to correct me about any part, or have any other comments,
don't hesitate to write (moss@cs.scarolina.edu).

thanks
jim

