From owner-freebsd-current Mon Sep 2 8: 2:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18F5B37B400 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 08:02:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB6EA43E6A for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 08:02:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: from bde.zeta.org.au (bde.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.102]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA21522; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 15:01:55 GMT Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 01:09:11 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-X-Sender: bde@gamplex.bde.org To: Peter Wemm Cc: Jake Burkholder , Subject: Re: aout support broken in gcc3 In-Reply-To: <20020902120434.0A4D42A893@canning.wemm.org> Message-ID: <20020903005911.V3848-100000@gamplex.bde.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message