Re: a.out vs. ELF

On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 05:28:29PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> No support to create a.out binaries or libraries directly (why would
> you want that anyway?), but you can use objcopy to convert elf -> a.out
> (we do that for some machines where the firmware can only boot a.out
> kernels).

Oh, and before confusion arises: executing a.out binaries is something
completely different, we can still do that and are not planning to break
compat.

Martin