From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 1 9:10:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7D6115031 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 09:10:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA22654; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 09:09:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) From: John Polstra Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) id JAA48942; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 09:09:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 09:09:57 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199903011709.JAA48942@vashon.polstra.com> To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com Subject: Re: gcc In-Reply-To: <31122.920241640@zippy.cdrom.com> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: current@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <31122.920241640@zippy.cdrom.com>, Jordan K. Hubbard 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 -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." -- H. L. Mencken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message