Recent removal of a.out and COFF support for sparc

[Cary Coutant]

>> Another is that people report bugs about leaked memory.  Generally
>> that's also a "don't care", since none of "ld", "as" or any of the
>> binutils run as servers.
>>
>> Finally, when anyone wants to make changes to data structures or
>> functions used by all the backends, we have to change all this old
>> code too.
>
> Why isn't this done on Gold though?

Why isn't *what* done on gold? Gold is ELF-only and doesn't use BFD.

-cary