On Thu, 20 Jun 1996 10:45:54 -0700 
 Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU> wrote:

 > Please note that the binaries in question are actually either pre-1.1
 > binaries, or binaries produced by a ld which came from a pre-1.1
 > snapshot. I'm not sure what to call them. (COMPAT_10, I guess,
 > but there never _was_ a NetBSD/pmax 1.0 release...)
 > 
 > In any case, there really shouldn't be many of them around.
 > These binaries have other disadvantages, like (IIRC) that the GNU
 > binutils strip can't strip them.
 > 
 > I think I've convinced Chistos that a better long-term fix is to
 > generalize the MI code to be able to load what are perfectly
 > resepctable ELF binaries; but just not output the way a traditional
 > GNU binutils elf linker would produce them.

Ah, Ok.  I understand ... makes sense.

 > >Maybe a good name for the old ELF code would be mips/mips/elf_compat.c
 > 
 > True, if we decide to keep TEd's old implemetation.  In a panic to get
 > _something_ done before the final freeze, I didn't think very
 > clearly...

Oh, no worries.  I didn't mean to imply what you did was wrong, just 
that, when there's time, instead of deprecating it completely, a compat 
option could take its place.

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