From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 15 14:27: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mailhub.yumyumyum.org (dsl092-171-091.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.171.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1FF2D37B416 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 14:26:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 30863 invoked from network); 15 Mar 2002 22:26:38 -0000 Received: from dsl092-171-091.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net (66.92.171.91) by dsl092-171-091.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net with SMTP; 15 Mar 2002 22:26:38 -0000 Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 17:26:37 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Culver To: David O'Brien Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, Subject: Re: gcc -O broken in CURRENT In-Reply-To: <20020315141913.D63986@dragon.nuxi.com> Message-ID: <20020315172221.P30837-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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. > Well, I was just asking if it is necessary, I'd make a patch if there was interest. My mail was asking if there is interest. Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message