Re: Recent removal of a.out and COFF support for sparc

2018-08-07 Thread Alan Modra
ut 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

Re: Recent removal of a.out and COFF support for sparc

2018-08-08 Thread Alan Modra
e the case. Are *you* interested in maintaining sparc-aout or sparc-coff? There are sparc bug reports dating back to 2004 that no one has analyzed! -- Alan Modra Australia Development Lab, IBM ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: Recent removal of a.out and COFF support for sparc

2018-08-08 Thread Alan Modra
ot have to worry about it. > > I suspect that, just like with MIPS ECOFF support, it will be enough if > we have BFD support, so that tools like `objcopy' and `objdump' continue > working, and all the hairy linker infrastructure can go. But that would > have to be c