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Re: 'Obsolete' architectures in GCC 4.4
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: paul at smedley dot id dot au
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:27:56 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: Re: 'Obsolete' architectures in GCC 4.4
- References: <POn1Xm9ddZOp-pn2-jBWGOv0CwcFS@smedley.info>
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Paul Smedley wrote:
> * Generic a.out on IA32 and m68k (i[34567]86-*-aout*,
> m68k-*-aout*)
>
> For the record, the Generic a.out support for IA32 is used by my GCC
> 4.3.3 and upcoming GCC 4.4.x ports for OS/2. I don't yet have the
> patches in any form ready enough to be submitted for inclusion, but
> they are available from
> http://www.smedley.info/os2ports/index.php?page=gcc
>
> I'd be really grately if the IA32 a.out support could be left in place
> as it does work for OS/2 at least :)
Generic a.out is for bare-metal embedded boards without an operating
system or with an RTOS with no specific GCC port and is obsoleted by
generic ELF. An OS/2 port would have its own target, i?86-*-os2 or
similar, and so would be unaffected by this deprecation.
--
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com