On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 10:46:06 +0100, Andy Polyakov wrote:

>> >> I have to recommend to always mention which platform is affected.
>> 
>> Well, normally I would but I figured that as the bug could be reproduced
>> with a portable perl command & would affect any a.out target that the
>> platform was irrelevant...
>
>It is relevant as I was unaware of any target that actually uses a.out
>support in the perl module in quesiton. I mean a.out support on Unix is
>covered by cpp (which was verified to work!) and not by [perl-wise]
>a.out. So that when working on affected code I couldn't stop wondering
>where is this [perl-wise] a.out is used and even considered to get rid
>of it as redundant:-) A.

Well, you'll find it used in os2/OS2-EMX.cmd
The OS/2 port of gcc uses a.out. It can also produce OMF objects but still
uses the underscores.

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