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Subject: Re: Recent removal of a.out and COFF support for sparc
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On 08/07/2018 05:04 PM, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> I can change code to do conversion to coff ourselves.
Shouldn't that be a.out?

And we would still have the problem that other binaries for OBP
can no longer be generated using binutils.

Adrian

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