On 12/17/18 11:08 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >>> Or will you add a.out support back into libbfd? >> >> No, that's not really possible as upstream doesn't want to deal with a.out >> and >> COFF anymore, unfortunately. > > Hm? Was COFF/a.out dropped yet from binutils? (That is not what I observe.)
Yes, it was dropped for some architectures like m68k and SPARC: > https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=dc12032bca08554cf0a72d224e44f755f7789ff3 > https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=c9098af41e3246586a30f4f0bdb0ee4367e9a5e7 See also: https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2018-08/msg00138.html Thanks, Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913