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Re: Cleanups for the m68k backend
On Monday 07 July 2003 23:21, Marc Espie wrote:
> >OpenBSD usually tracks changes in the NetBSD very closely, but I
> >couldn't find where in their release notes they say m68k platforms
> >have been switched to ELF.
>
> Not surprising, because it hasn't been switched to ELF.
:-/
> It's highly dependent on people having time to work on it.
> This kind of change is hard to track, partly because the toolchain is
> a bit fickle, and having the right version of binutils to play with
> the right version of gcc and adding gdb on top of that is well... not
> always that simple.
NetBSD switched to ELF. Wasn't OpenBSD supposed to track improvements
made to NetBSD and merge them in their tree? Back when I was a NetBSD
developer it used to be so.
IIRC, at that time OpenBSD was a branch of NetBSD which wasn't bound to
US export control restrictions, so it had crypto and other bells and
whistles, with a focus on security.
But perhaps the two code bases diverged even more now, so merging changes
is not that easy anymore... It's sad...
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