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

Joel Brobecker
2016-04-20T18:50:30Z

> 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! :-)

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Joel