Recent removal of a.out and COFF support for sparc

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de
Wed Aug 8 21:26:00 GMT 2018


On 08/08/2018 08:30 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
>> 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).

Not really. Linux supports about 25 unique architectures multiplied by various sub-
architectures. You are counting sub-architectures as individual targets in NetBSD.
You are already counting four or five different m68k targets which are covered by a
single m68k target on Linux.

Adrian

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