From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 15 14:36:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A174E37B41D; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 14:36:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2FMa9lv066247; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 14:36:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g2FMYrkV066208; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 14:34:53 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 14:34:53 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Kenneth Culver Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gcc -O broken in CURRENT Message-ID: <20020315143453.A66190@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020315141913.D63986@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020315172221.P30837-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020315172221.P30837-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org>; from culverk@alpha.yumyumyum.org on Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 05:26:37PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 05:26:37PM -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 ... > > 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. We aren't changing this for GCC 2.95 in 5-CURRENT. PEROID. There is zero reason for subjecting users to this ABI change for what would be gained. If you want to do something productive, submit patches that Bmake GCC 3.1 (which move us to Dwarf2 unwinding as a product). -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message