From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 15 14:20:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E335237B417; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 14:20:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2FMKRlv065842; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 14:20:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g2FMJDsX065814; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 14:19:13 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 14:19:13 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Kenneth Culver Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gcc -O broken in CURRENT Message-ID: <20020315141913.D63986@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3C922C0B.AC440E75@mindspring.com> <20020315165304.O30658-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020315165304.O30658-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org>; from culverk@alpha.yumyumyum.org on Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 04:54:59PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 04:54:59PM -0500, Kenneth Culver wrote: > > At the risk of being yelled at, I have a question: Why do we still need to > support a.out? I know that a lot of people MIGHT still have some a.out > binaries lying around, but FreeBSD's default binary format has been ELF > for 3 or 4 years (Since 3.0-3.1 I believe). I'm not saying that we should > entirely switch over to the regular gnu toolchain, but is it really > necessary to keep supporting a.out? Just my $0.02 Rather than offer $0.02, send the patch. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message