Re: [RFC] Remove all a.out support and gc no-longer-supported OS ABIs? (Re: [PATCH] Avoid spaces in osabi names)

Pedro Alves
2016-04-22T13:14:57Z

On 04/20/2016 07:50 PM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
>> With my FreeBSD hat on, I think it would be fine to drop a.out support.
>> FreeBSD still permits running a.out binaries, but if someone really wants
>> to debug that they can probably grab an older snapshot of gdb if they
>> really care. (FreeBSD has used ELF for binaries and cores since 3.0
>> which was released in October 1998. The last release to ship a.out
>> binaries was 2.2.8 released in November of 1998.)
>
> Thanks for the info! Given what you said, I also think it is fair to
> drop a.out. Should have done that a while ago, actually! :-)

Alright, I'll push it in soon then.

Thanks,
Pedro Alves