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Re: Remove mips aout, coff, and pe support
- From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro at mips dot com>
- To: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>
- Cc: <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 12:30:49 +0100
- Subject: Re: Remove mips aout, coff, and pe support
- References: <20180418082529.GH3684@bubble.grove.modra.org>
Hi Alan,
> include/coff/mips.h needs to stay for ecoff debug support. Unless we
> don't need that anymore, Maciej?
I'm fine with letting `mips-ecoff' and `mipsel-ecoff' targets go, but I
thought we'd keep the `ecoff-bigmips' and `ecoff-littlemips' BFDs as
secondaries for 'mips*-linux*' targets so that `objcopy' and `objdump'
remain functional with these BFDs. Especially the latter tool seems
useful to examine various kinds of bootable images that are still around
(people have been used `elf2ecoff' rather than `objcopy' to create such
images). I think having to keep an old binary version around just for
this purpose would be unnecessary pain.
Maciej