From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 62398 invoked by alias); 22 Apr 2016 13:14:57 -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 62386 invoked by uid 89); 22 Apr 2016 13:14:56 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=October, Hx-languages-length:773 X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Fri, 22 Apr 2016 13:14:55 +0000 Received: from int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.24]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 414386F66C; Fri, 22 Apr 2016 13:14:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id u3MDEqoM024358; Fri, 22 Apr 2016 09:14:52 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC] Remove all a.out support and gc no-longer-supported OS ABIs? (Re: [PATCH] Avoid spaces in osabi names) To: Joel Brobecker , John Baldwin References: <1457377364-990-1-git-send-email-palves@redhat.com> <56DDD284.2080408@ericsson.com> <56DF7DA6.4080704@redhat.com> <1637407.eeDNHfBBCL@ralph.baldwin.cx> <20160420185022.GA4078@adacore.com> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Simon Marchi , Mark Kettenis From: Pedro Alves Message-ID: <571A23CC.5060908@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 13:14:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160420185022.GA4078@adacore.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2016-04/txt/msg00521.txt.bz2 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