Re: How out of date is "netbsdpe"?
"John Ericson" <[email protected]>
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For reference, I submitted https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2021-June/117056.html. There is no corresponding change to make in GCC. On Thu, Jun 17, 2021, at 9:59 PM, John Ericson wrote: > Thanks for digging that up, David. I very much appreciate it. > > I'm going to start with removing support for that in Bintutils, then. I think that will help simplify the main patch, and smooth things out more generally. > > John > > On Wed, Jun 16, 2021, at 3:09 AM, David Holland wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 06:37:35PM -0400, John Ericson wrote: >> > When working on patches for GCC and Binutils to change the meaning >> > of "netbsd" in configs to mean ELF rather than a.out as discussed >> > in the other thread, I noticed there was also a "netbsdpe" in a few >> > places. >> > >> > I assume this stands for "NetBSD Portable Executable". Has this >> > been supported any time in recent memory? (My background knowledge >> > is that the time-frame of other non-Windows OSes trying out PE was >> > very brief and long ago.) >> >> Not that I know of. There was a COMPAT_PECOFF for a while, but it >> never did much and was removed in 2011. >> >> -- >> David A. Holland >> [email protected] <mailto:dholland%40netbsd.org> >> >