On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Paul Smedley wrote: > * Generic a.out on IA32 and m68k (i[34567]86-*-aout*, > m68k-*-aout*) > > For the record, the Generic a.out support for IA32 is used by my GCC > 4.3.3 and upcoming GCC 4.4.x ports for OS/2. I don't yet have the > patches in any form ready enough to be submitted for inclusion, but > they are available from > http://www.smedley.info/os2ports/index.php?page=gcc > > I'd be really grately if the IA32 a.out support could be left in place > as it does work for OS/2 at least :)
Generic a.out is for bare-metal embedded boards without an operating system or with an RTOS with no specific GCC port and is obsoleted by generic ELF. An OS/2 port would have its own target, i?86-*-os2 or similar, and so would be unaffected by this deprecation. -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com
