On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 11:29:46AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > Actually, there was a discussion at BSDCon as to whether or > not to drop the a.out support in order to decrease the patch > size necessary to make the FSF distributed code do what FreeBSD
That is true for GCC. For contrib/binutils, the code only supports FreeBSD/ELF. The old a.out as & ld are elsewhere in the tree -- and have not been updated for years. > needed it to do (personally, I would prefer that the a.out > code generation be integrated back into the FSF code base but > this is unlikely for FSF political reasons with regard to the I have tried many times... To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message