Remove arm-aout and arm-coff support

JonY 10walls@gmail.com
Thu Apr 19 11:05:00 GMT 2018


On 04/16/2018 04:43 PM, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
> On 16.04.2018 18:33, Nick Clifton wrote:
>> Hi Alan,
>>
>>> This also removes arm-netbsd (not arm-netbsdelf!), arm-openbsd, and
>>> arm-riscix.  Those targets weren't on the obsolete list but they are
>>> all AOUT, and it doesn't make all that much sense to remove arm-aout
>>> without removing them too.
>>>
>>> Should I go ahead with this?
>>
>> Well I would say "yes", but let's give the ARM users a chance to say something
>> first.  If you have not received an answer by this time next week, then please
>> go ahead.
>>
>> Cheers
>>   Nick
>>
> 
> NetBSD (version 2.0?) has switched all ARM targets to ELF and a.out is
> supported only in compat layers (with userland tools like compat dynamic
> loader for a.out).
> 

Does this affect PE-COFF on ARM? More specifically Windows on ARM.

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