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Date:      Mon, 2 Sep 2002 09:29:05 -0700
From:      Gordon Tetlow <gordont@gnf.org>
To:        Alexander Kabaev <ak03@gte.com>
Cc:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, peter@wemm.org, jake@locore.ca, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: aout support broken in gcc3
Message-ID:  <20020902162905.GB37808@roark.gnf.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020902113448.1b27d963.ak03@gte.com>
References:  <20020902120434.0A4D42A893@canning.wemm.org> <20020903005911.V3848-100000@gamplex.bde.org> <20020902113448.1b27d963.ak03@gte.com>

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On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 11:34:48AM -0400, Alexander Kabaev wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Sep 2002 01:09:11 +1000 (EST)
> Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> wrote:
>=20
> >=20
> > Except I just used it to compile biosboot :-).  (I had more problems
> > with ufs2 changes than with the compiler.)
> >=20
> > Actually, I agree.  Not having a clean break in FreeBSD-3 was very
> > expensive. Support for running aout binaries and compatibility cruft
> > to support old binaries should have been dropped too.
>=20
> Do we have an agreement here? A.OUT support is to be dropped with the
> next gcc upgrade, when/if it will happen?

I think it should be turned off now. That will help shake out any issues
and people complaining that it is gone. The sooner the better.

-gordon

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