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Re: Remove arm-aout and arm-coff support

On 16.04.2018 18:33, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Alan,
> 
>> This also removes arm-netbsd (not arm-netbsdelf!), arm-openbsd, and
>> arm-riscix.  Those targets weren't on the obsolete list but they are
>> all AOUT, and it doesn't make all that much sense to remove arm-aout
>> without removing them too.
>>
>> Should I go ahead with this?
> 
> Well I would say "yes", but let's give the ARM users a chance to say something
> first.  If you have not received an answer by this time next week, then please
> go ahead.
> 
> Cheers
>   Nick
> 

NetBSD (version 2.0?) has switched all ARM targets to ELF and a.out is
supported only in compat layers (with userland tools like compat dynamic
loader for a.out).

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