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Re: Deprecating and removing old targets
> On 12 Sep 2016, at 17:37, Paul.Koning@dell.com wrote:
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>> On Sep 12, 2016, at 3:37 AM, Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com> wrote:
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>> Hello,
>>
>> after a short discussion at the GNU cauldron 2016, I'd like to hear opinion about removing old targets in bfd.
>> It is hard to know whether or not they are used, so if you are using an old target please speak up.
>>
>> By old target, I mean any non-ELF target for which OS wasn't update in the last 10 years.
>> Without a complete search, I think about:
>>
>> * all a.out targets
>> ...
>> Targets I think we should keep:
>> * vax
>> * z80
>> * pdp11
>
> Sounds reasonable. I'm partial to pdp11. But isn't pdp11 an a.out target?
Ah, ah! You're right.
So I suppose you'd like to keep pdp11 and a.out ?
Tristan.