Re: a.out vs. ELF

Martin Husemann <[email protected]> Tue, 26 Sep 2017 11:02:31 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.ports.m68k
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 09:04:01AM +0200, Hauke Fath wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Sep 2017 07:30:07 +1000, Miro KropÃ¡?ek wrote:
> > When exactly a.out was dropped in NetBSD?
> 
> It's been a while - after NetBSD 1.5.

I think there is confusion - we switchted to ELF back then, but still
supported creating a.out binaries with the in-tree toolchains.

The removal of creating a.out support happened 2010-07-06 (but it was
likely non functional at that point). Also this was mostly for our
build system (make files and macros) and thinks like the old ld.aout_so.

Not sure about the plain gcc/binutils stuff - if it is still there, we
certainly do not exercise it.

Martin