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Re: Recent removal of a.out and COFF support for sparc
> On Aug 8, 2018, at 2:27 PM, Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 8 Aug 2018, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>
>>> Gold supports only a small fraction of the platforms that BFD does,
>>
>> Which of the platforms that are still relevant for commercial applications
>> are supported by BFD which are not supported by Gold?
>>
>> As far as I know, Gold support x86*, POWER*, ARM*, s390* and MIPS* which
>> covers all of the targets that distributions like Fedora, openSUSE and
>> Debian consider as supported release architectures.
>
> 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).
paul