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Date:      Fri, 15 Mar 2002 14:19:13 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Kenneth Culver <culverk@alpha.yumyumyum.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: gcc -O broken in CURRENT
Message-ID:  <20020315141913.D63986@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020315165304.O30658-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org>; from culverk@alpha.yumyumyum.org on Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 04:54:59PM -0500
References:  <3C922C0B.AC440E75@mindspring.com> <20020315165304.O30658-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org>

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On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 04:54:59PM -0500, Kenneth Culver wrote:
>
> At the risk of being yelled at, I have a question: Why do we still need to
> support a.out? I know that a lot of people MIGHT still have some a.out
> binaries lying around, but FreeBSD's default binary format has been ELF
> for 3 or 4 years (Since 3.0-3.1 I believe). I'm not saying that we should
> entirely switch over to the regular gnu toolchain, but is it really
> necessary to keep supporting a.out? Just my $0.02

Rather than offer $0.02, send the patch.

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-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)

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