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Re: Removing AOUT support post-5.0?



On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 01:43:24AM +0000, David Holland 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...

Er, building. Right. Never mind, nothing to see here. I can read,
really :-)

I guess the theoretical benefits of being able to switch again easily
are nearly negligible...

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


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