From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 1 14:46:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from sumatra.americantv.com (sumatra.americantv.com [207.170.17.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1413B15457 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 14:46:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jlemon@americantv.com) Received: from right.PCS (right.PCS [148.105.10.31]) by sumatra.americantv.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA15321 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 16:45:45 -0600 (CST) Received: from free.pcs (free.PCS [148.105.10.51]) by right.PCS (8.6.13/8.6.4) with ESMTP id QAA11269 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 16:41:30 -0600 Received: (from jlemon@localhost) by free.pcs (8.8.6/8.8.5) id QAA24387; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 16:45:13 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 16:45:13 -0600 (CST) From: Jonathan Lemon Message-Id: <199903012245.QAA24387@free.pcs> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gcc X-Newsgroups: local.mail.freebsd-current In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Architecture and Operating System Fanatics Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article you write: >In message <199903011709.JAA48942@vashon.polstra.com>, John Polstra writes: >>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. > >Wouldn't the first logical step be to stop generating the a.out libs >in make world, and check in the "final version" like with the rest >of the compat libs ? How about getting profiling working for ELF kernels before before completely abandoning a.out? -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message