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Date:      Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:52:17 -0700
From:      Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Cc:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: aout support broken in gcc3
Message-ID:  <20020903125217.A56616@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200209030827.JAA04147@rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>; from richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk on Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 09:27:34AM %2B0100
References:  <200209030827.JAA04147@rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>

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* De: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> [ Data: 2002-09-03 ]
	[ Subjecte: Re: aout support broken in gcc3 ]
> > GCC being able to produce a.out format binaries has nothing to do with
> > the ability of a Lisp or Prolog to compile to object files,
> 
> Correct.
> 
> > and read such, whether said object files be a.out or ELF or COFF or PECOFF or
> > Mach-O or ...
> 
> False.  As I said, I have systems that read a.out format object files
> and they would need to be ported to read ELF object files instead.
> 
> Furthermore, they write themselves out (after loading object files) in
> a.out format, and would need to be ported to write themselves out
> in ELF format.

Where exactly does GCC fit into the mix, making this impossible?
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