On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Peter Wemm wrote: > Bruce Evans wrote: > > On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Jake Burkholder wrote: > > > > > Apparently, On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 02:24:08PM +1000, > > > Bruce Evans said words to the effect of; > > > > > > > aout support is still required for a few things (mainly for compiling > > > > some boot blocks), but is broken in gcc3 for at least compile-time > > > > > > Which boot blocks? > > > > Oops, perhaps only mine. (I use my version of biosboot which is like > > pc98/boot2 except it supports loading elf kernels and some local things, > > and it hasn't been converted to elf at the source level.) When I wrote > > ... > > I've been of the opinion for a while that it is well past time to remove > the hybrid a.out/ELF support in the compiler and stop pretending that we > support a.out. All it does these days is slow down the compiler in the > usual case by pushing what are traditional compile-time decisions to > runtime. As you point out, it hasn't worked for a while.
Except I just used it to compile biosboot :-). (I had more problems with ufs2 changes than with the compiler.) Actually, I agree. Not having a clean break in FreeBSD-3 was very expensive. Support for running aout binaries and compatibility cruft to support old binaries should have been dropped too. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
