Re: Remove mips aout, coff, and pe support

[Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 12:30:49PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> 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.

I was hoping we could kill off ecoff.  Oh well, if you think we still
need mips_ecoff_be_vec and mips_ecoff_le_vec, please revert those
parts of my patch that you think are wrong.  (I guess that means
bringing mips-coff.c back to life and reverting some config.bfd and
Makefile.am changes.)

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM