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Date:      Wed, 4 Sep 2002 13:36:59 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: aout support broken in gcc3
Message-ID:  <200209041736.g84HaxCK018545@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200209032232.XAA04151@rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
References:  <200209032232.XAA04151@rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>

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<<On Tue, 3 Sep 2002 23:32:22 +0100 (BST), Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> said:

> So they need a C compiler that can generate a.out format .o files, and
> a linker that can link a.out format .o files against an a.out format
> executable.

Not necessarily.  There is always `objcopy', at least for static
executables.  The version we ship doesn't support any flavor of a.out,
but that wouldn't be too difficult to fix if it solved this particular
problem.

-GAWollman


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