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Subject: Re: [Call for testers] "BSD ar"
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On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 03:23:36PM +0100, Kai Wang wrote:
> BSD ar is mostly compatible with GNU ar and it has advantages like:

Can your 'ar' handle multiple targets?

amd64$ ar --help
..snip..
ar: supported targets: elf64-x86-64 elf32-i386-freebsd srec symbolsrec tekhex binary ihex

If not, I don't think its ready to be a Bintuils 'ar' replacement.

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