Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 09:09:57 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gcc Message-ID: <199903011709.JAA48942@vashon.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <31122.920241640@zippy.cdrom.com>
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In article <31122.920241640@zippy.cdrom.com>,
Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> wrote:
>
> I'd personally be happy with an egcs that just did sensible things
> with ELF,
Me too. We _must_ not let a.out become a ball and chain. We have
stressed over and over all along that we were not going to become a
dual-object-format OS. That means we _must_ be willing to abandon
a.out support for new code. We will keep the legacy a.out libraries
for old applications to link against, but we don't have to keep the
ability to generate new ones. To do so would hold us back (_is_
holding us back) with very little to show for it.
John
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