Re: Latest Debian Sparc64 installer

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

On 12/17/18 11:08 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>> Or will you add a.out support back into libbfd?
>>
>> No, that's not really possible as upstream doesn't want to deal with a.out and
>> COFF anymore, unfortunately.
> 
> Hm? Was COFF/a.out dropped yet from binutils? (That is not what I observe.)

Yes, it was dropped for some architectures like m68k and SPARC:

> https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=dc12032bca08554cf0a72d224e44f755f7789ff3
> https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=c9098af41e3246586a30f4f0bdb0ee4367e9a5e7

See also: https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2018-08/msg00138.html

Thanks,
Adrian

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