Proposed targets to obsolete for 3.5, first pass
Zack Weinberg
zack@codesourcery.com
Mon Jun 21 22:39:00 GMT 2004
Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com> writes:
> Both Ultrix and BSD4.x are straight a.out ports. I'd like the a.out
> support to remain since the cost to keep it about zero.
Actually, a.out (along with other object formats that don't support
named sections) is responsible for a lot of fragile and frequently-
broken code including some in the language front ends (e.g. static
ctor handling). I would not describe the cost as zero.
zw
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