GCC 4.3 target deprecation proposals

Paul Koning ni1d@arrl.net
Thu Jan 24 17:40:00 GMT 2008


>>>>> "Joseph" == Joseph S Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> writes:

 Joseph> ...  There is good coverage for
 Joseph> bare-metal ELF targets, but none for bare-metal a.out and
 Joseph> COFF targets (perhaps we should consider deprecating all of
 Joseph> those, on the presumption that bare-metal use has moved to
 Joseph> ELF and objcopy is likely to be used in any case to produce a
 Joseph> raw binary image...

I believe pdp11 (all OS flavors) is a.out.  Is getting rid of COFF and
a.out considered a desirable thing to do?  If so I'll look at what
that implies in pdp11.

     paul



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