> > 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 > > The switchover is not trivial. You're asking someone to do > work for something that's not really valuable to them. > > There are certain boot code features that require the use of > a.out kernels; this is less an issue than it was, but there > were a number of things lost when we went to the new loader > that are important for embedded environments. > > Cross-building for older platforms (not as big an issue, IMO). > > Other reasons I haven't even thought of yet.... 8-). > Yeah, I was just wondering if there were issues making us keep a.out stuff in FreeBSD aside from the "I wanna run 2.2.x programs" issue.
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