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Date:      Mon, 2 Sep 2002 13:03:33 -0700
From:      Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>
To:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca>
Subject:   Re: aout support broken in gcc3
Message-ID:  <20020902130333.A60287@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020902193842.GA49786@dragon.nuxi.com>; from dev-null@NUXI.com on Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 12:38:42PM -0700
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* De: David O'Brien <dev-null@NUXI.com> [ Data: 2002-09-02 ]
	[ Subjecte: Re: aout support broken in gcc3 ]
> On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 01:24:19PM -0400, Matthew Emmerton wrote:
> > I thought it was part of the plan to drop all traces of a.out support in
> > 5.x.  Am I wrong?
> 
> We should be *very* careful to accurately describe what is being
> suggested.
> 
> I believe it is that 5.x a.out binaries not be supported.  However, 2.x
> a.out binaries will be supported.  This is different thatn "drop all
> traces of a.out support".

I *hope* nobody is suggesting to rip out the ability to use compat22, let
alone the a.out execution facilities in the Kernel.  Though maybe making
those optional would be good?
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