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Re: Recent removal of a.out and COFF support for sparc
On 08/08/2018 08:30 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
>> We have dozens of bare metal targets which only have support in BFD.
>> Some of these architectures happen to have Linux support too, for embedded
>> applications. All the world is not Linux.
>
> Indeed. For example, NetBSD support 57 platforms (not quite that many architectures, but a lot more than Linux).
Not really. Linux supports about 25 unique architectures multiplied by various sub-
architectures. You are counting sub-architectures as individual targets in NetBSD.
You are already counting four or five different m68k targets which are covered by a
single m68k target on Linux.
Adrian
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