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Re: Removing AOUT support post-5.0?

To: Matt Thomas <matt%3am-software.com@localhost>
Subject: Re: Removing AOUT support post-5.0?
From: David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 01:43:24 +0000

On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 05:22:37PM -0700, Matt Thomas wrote:
> Now that NetBSD is fully ELF and unlikely to switch to new executable 
> format,

I don't think the latter is a good assumption.

> should we limit hooks for building non-ELF?

What would it buy us? Traditionally we retain compatibility all the
way back to NetBSD 0.9...

-- 
David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost

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