From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1fnRlM-0005EN-LV for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2018 12:56:44 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42935) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fnPcb-0002qf-OJ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:39:34 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fnPcb-0006Hn-25 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:39:33 -0400 Received: from mail-ua0-x234.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400c:c08::234]:38014) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fnPca-0006HX-S9 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:39:32 -0400 Received: by mail-ua0-x234.google.com with SMTP id o11-v6so2612724uak.5 for ; Wed, 08 Aug 2018 07:39:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=W5lXZH9wAWY0a/KG3DFz4JNNbvNm5kFheD4yOe5NanM=; b=SbtTyEAmHI51i68kx69zC3OY9NvT6yiZvQyaGfbSiV+UjM6AMmmUCSIwW4/MYoSfyM 14/RVb/LZ6YIlU9Xa+QFkv8aj3mV6jdoOQX6FBR6yBNxnfUv+jMbFjeMWAACCtlmTDxy uKXqG0e1cdZ42TxLzen/EmFoU6uoq9QlYo8eWx5u9DRFK8W8LbaFKzloXURSp4/E2naa b8AUTPikv41AXCeYmyKbSTqkK4Q6Wzhl2k0DUhjystSmaeQw5LRkWceZxhyReHJOh3sN 5PRXTCWZo5UggDdtysvmtWM5qdnTBcQq0EX5FQSq40I3NAePK0IPdWAhAId8GMUF4NDy t/0Q== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=W5lXZH9wAWY0a/KG3DFz4JNNbvNm5kFheD4yOe5NanM=; b=DBKgiQEXy/ZNWSWKLIhaezmvBp+g5PRGQ3e4T5tA6q7GGbsTB583g7wbP0yAqgUa21 6eWO6kxFwI+VL21buJbWYwb1uMnK1pJTePgYJqkgQJOnJKYvGqcrNVwTyo5yiOG/Rlpm 80wTPDD1yXnlMdtTP+eUHi8qu7OPo1VqX6hqkDVpJFvTXmAOg5XpjN56YLvLuYZiJ2UB twLrFnjmz5g4NcgVtAi1VkrTrskZl/nyoduc2Wh2cN1tj1SJf5CUK3rxpb9I6blzRP1s yYS48OY59EOsIwHKFOMLjRyMDHSUwqST3lsGk54S+ZFlpbehZ4o6aL/SZ1YacS5ZfnXZ CL+w== X-Gm-Message-State: AOUpUlF8XP4wSxDlAwvoHeIAGaUrjYTY2r7AvqonC91BFYQs9sLcrGi3 WzdvCbRmLjHS+EbqXDNXWxf8znPWtzrypc0wtz0= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AA+uWPzoVVSotrE0ES/g623SlWaOi9TT3cdJCkShT1/EBrOhnj68ihb/mRgcUtJ/Di1tbl3Jy74KXEx7DiamPyvk5tk= X-Received: by 2002:ab0:664c:: with SMTP id b12-v6mr2239480uaq.193.1533739171935; Wed, 08 Aug 2018 07:39:31 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 2002:a67:364d:0:0:0:0:0 with HTTP; Wed, 8 Aug 2018 07:39:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <643f686e-d568-978d-07ab-31a62336966f@physik.fu-berlin.de> References: <2d2f1c2a-1715-1348-c35a-ad562a3acbb2@physik.fu-berlin.de> <27449274-9250-97a3-1ff9-8b9c818659d4@physik.fu-berlin.de> <20180808015529.GP26457@bubble.grove.modra.org> <20180808131659.GA1544@bubble.grove.modra.org> <643f686e-d568-978d-07ab-31a62336966f@physik.fu-berlin.de> From: Cary Coutant Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2018 07:39:31 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Recent removal of a.out and COFF support for sparc To: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Cc: Alan Modra , Binutils , The development of GNU GRUB Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400c:c08::234 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 08 Aug 2018 12:56:43 -0400 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2018 14:39:34 -0000 >> 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