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[bfd] Missing sparc aout?
- From: "Alexander von Gluck IV" <kallisti5 at unixzen dot com>
- To: binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2019 13:04:15 +0000
- Subject: [bfd] Missing sparc aout?
Good morning!
I was upgrading to binutils 2.32 and noticed the "sparc_aout_sunos_be_vec" target disappeared.
On that note, there are no longer any "aout" targets for sparc now.
2.28.1:
grep -R "sparc_" bfd/targets.c
extern const bfd_target sparc_aout_le_vec;
extern const bfd_target sparc_aout_linux_vec;
extern const bfd_target sparc_aout_lynx_vec;
extern const bfd_target sparc_aout_nbsd_vec;
extern const bfd_target sparc_aout_sunos_be_vec;
extern const bfd_target sparc_coff_vec;
extern const bfd_target sparc_coff_lynx_vec;
extern const bfd_target sparc_elf32_vec;
extern const bfd_target sparc_elf32_sol2_vec;
extern const bfd_target sparc_elf32_vxworks_vec;
extern const bfd_target sparc_elf64_vec;
extern const bfd_target sparc_elf64_fbsd_vec;
extern const bfd_target sparc_elf64_sol2_vec;
extern const bfd_target sparc_nlm32_vec;
2.32:
$ grep -R "sparc_" targets.c
extern const bfd_target sparc_elf32_vec;
extern const bfd_target sparc_elf32_sol2_vec;
extern const bfd_target sparc_elf32_vxworks_vec;
extern const bfd_target sparc_elf64_vec;
extern const bfd_target sparc_elf64_fbsd_vec;
extern const bfd_target sparc_elf64_sol2_vec;
aout is the required binary format for sparc openfirmware bootloaders.. any idea how to generate aout binaries now?
-- Alex