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Re: Proposed targets to obsolete for 3.5, first pass
- From: espie at quatramaran dot ens dot fr (Marc Espie)
- To: stevenb at suse dot de
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 16:28:26 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: Proposed targets to obsolete for 3.5, first pass
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- References: <200406201739.18486.steven@gcc.gnu.org> <6.1.1.1.2.20040621134427.050ebdb8@localhost>
In article <200406212314.22460.stevenb@suse.de> you write:
>On Monday 21 June 2004 22:51, Matt Thomas wrote:
>> As someone pointed out, there is a free VAX emulator, simh. Both
>> NetBSD and Linux are ELF targets and simh does boot NetBSD/vax.
>> Note that testsuite submission was by me. I can actually build and
>> run a NetBSD/vax ELF userland (non-shared) using GCC 3.3.x.
>
>Are there any non-ELF vax targets you're aware of? (And is the simulator
>also ELF?).
OpenBSD is using a variant of gcc 2.95.3 on vax that still generates
a.out.
There might be a move to ELF for shared libraries, but in general,
shared libraries on vax are hard to make in an efficient way, thanks to
512 bytes pages.
(or so I've been told).