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Re: [RFC] Remove all a.out support and gc no-longer-supported OS ABIs? (Re: [PATCH] Avoid spaces in osabi names)
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd dot org>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>, Simon Marchi <simon dot marchi at ericsson dot com>, Mark Kettenis <mark dot kettenis at xs4all dot nl>
- Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 14:50:22 -0400
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Remove all a.out support and gc no-longer-supported OS ABIs? (Re: [PATCH] Avoid spaces in osabi names)
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> With my FreeBSD hat on, I think it would be fine to drop a.out support.
> FreeBSD still permits running a.out binaries, but if someone really wants
> to debug that they can probably grab an older snapshot of gdb if they
> really care. (FreeBSD has used ELF for binaries and cores since 3.0
> which was released in October 1998. The last release to ship a.out
> binaries was 2.2.8 released in November of 1998.)
Thanks for the info! Given what you said, I also think it is fair to
drop a.out. Should have done that a while ago, actually! :-)
--
Joel