Remove mips aout, coff, and pe support
Alan Modra
amodra@gmail.com
Wed Apr 18 13:31:00 GMT 2018
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
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