On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 05:56:58PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 08/07/2018 12:51 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > binutils/bfd recently removed a.out and COFF support for sparc [1]. > I just noticed that COFF/a.out support for MIPS was removed as well > and shortly after restored since it seems that GRUB also needs > COFF/a.out support on MIPS. > > So, can we have COFF/a.out support back, at least for sparc*?
I would rather remove all AOUT support. AOUT as a format has been obsolete since the advent of ELF in the 1990s. See for example J. Arnold "ELF: An Object File to Mitigate Mischievous Misoneism", In Proc. of the Summer USENIX Conference, 1990. COFF should have died too.. The sparc target obsolescence happened here: https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2016-09/msg00184.html You've had quite a bit of warning, but I guess you just built binutils with --enable-obsolete, or stayed with older binutils. Well, older binutils are likely to be better for AOUT anyway. So what's to prevent you using older binutils for sparc-aout? -- Alan Modra Australia Development Lab, IBM _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
