Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 13:24:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: aout support broken in gcc3 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0209021323440.74201-100000@xena.gsicomp.on.ca> In-Reply-To: <20020903005911.V3848-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
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On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Bruce Evans wrote: > On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Peter Wemm wrote: > > > Bruce Evans wrote: > > > On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Jake Burkholder wrote: > > > > > > > Apparently, On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 02:24:08PM +1000, > > > > Bruce Evans said words to the effect of; > > > > > > > > > aout support is still required for a few things (mainly for compiling > > > > > some boot blocks), but is broken in gcc3 for at least compile-time > > > > > > > > Which boot blocks? > > > > > > Oops, perhaps only mine. (I use my version of biosboot which is like > > > pc98/boot2 except it supports loading elf kernels and some local things, > > > and it hasn't been converted to elf at the source level.) When I wrote > > > ... > > > > I've been of the opinion for a while that it is well past time to remove > > the hybrid a.out/ELF support in the compiler and stop pretending that we > > support a.out. All it does these days is slow down the compiler in the > > usual case by pushing what are traditional compile-time decisions to > > runtime. As you point out, it hasn't worked for a while. > > Except I just used it to compile biosboot :-). (I had more problems with > ufs2 changes than with the compiler.) > > 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. I thought it was part of the plan to drop all traces of a.out support in 5.x. Am I wrong? -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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