From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 92362 invoked by alias); 20 Apr 2016 18:50:30 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 92287 invoked by uid 89); 20 Apr 2016 18:50:29 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=info!, H*Ad:D*nl X-HELO: rock.gnat.com Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Wed, 20 Apr 2016 18:50:24 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD162116C94; Wed, 20 Apr 2016 14:50:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id A3wpomhkYM3P; Wed, 20 Apr 2016 14:50:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89456116B17; Wed, 20 Apr 2016 14:50:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2118D498E1; Wed, 20 Apr 2016 14:50:22 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 18:50:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: John Baldwin Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Pedro Alves , Simon Marchi , Mark Kettenis Subject: Re: [RFC] Remove all a.out support and gc no-longer-supported OS ABIs? (Re: [PATCH] Avoid spaces in osabi names) Message-ID: <20160420185022.GA4078@adacore.com> References: <1457377364-990-1-git-send-email-palves@redhat.com> <56DDD284.2080408@ericsson.com> <56DF7DA6.4080704@redhat.com> <1637407.eeDNHfBBCL@ralph.baldwin.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1637407.eeDNHfBBCL@ralph.baldwin.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-SW-Source: 2016-04/txt/msg00488.txt.bz2 > 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! :-) -- Joel