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From: Cary Coutant <ccoutant@gmail.com>
To: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Cc: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>, Binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>,
	 The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Recent removal of a.out and COFF support for sparc
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2018 07:39:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJimCsF6t4Py4wdAt0FevvO=E8RAEmfpKh0zFGLE5z12yxd7qA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <643f686e-d568-978d-07ab-31a62336966f@physik.fu-berlin.de>

>> Another is that people report bugs about leaked memory.  Generally
>> that's also a "don't care", since none of "ld", "as" or any of the
>> binutils run as servers.
>>
>> Finally, when anyone wants to make changes to data structures or
>> functions used by all the backends, we have to change all this old
>> code too.
>
> Why isn't this done on Gold though?

Why isn't *what* done on gold? Gold is ELF-only and doesn't use BFD.

-cary


  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-08-08 16:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-07 10:51 Recent removal of a.out and COFF support for sparc John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2018-08-07 12:58 ` Gunther Nikl
2018-08-07 15:04 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2018-08-07 15:16   ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2018-08-07 15:56 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2018-08-08  1:55   ` Alan Modra
2018-08-08  9:07     ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2018-08-08 13:16       ` Alan Modra
2018-08-08 13:45         ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2018-08-08 13:54           ` Joel Brobecker
2018-08-08 14:03             ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2018-08-08 14:20               ` Joel Brobecker
2018-08-08 15:15                 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2018-08-08 14:39           ` Cary Coutant [this message]
2018-08-08 14:41             ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2018-08-08 17:08               ` Cary Coutant
2018-08-08 18:11                 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2018-08-08 18:25                   ` Andreas Schwab
2018-08-08 18:27                   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2018-08-08 18:30                     ` Paul Koning
2018-08-08 21:26                       ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2018-08-08 21:23                     ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2018-08-08 21:27                       ` Paul Koning
2018-08-08 21:35                         ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2018-08-08 21:53                           ` Joel Brobecker
2018-08-09  0:03                           ` Paul Koning
2018-08-09  3:43                             ` Jeff Law
2018-08-08 21:32                       ` Andrew Pinski
2018-08-09 12:34                   ` Michael Matz
2018-08-08 10:59     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2018-08-08 13:34       ` Alan Modra
2018-08-08 18:14         ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2018-08-10  9:57           ` Jose E. Marchesi
2018-08-10 10:12             ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2018-08-08 15:07 ` Michael Matz

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