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Subject: Re: More MIPS testsuite fixes
From: Eric Christopher <echristo@redhat.com>
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>  I'd keep stuff like objcopy and objdump working to be able to do 
> conversions and verify they have actually worked.  Otherwise I don't care 
> about ECOFF either.
> 

I can agree with that.

>  But this is not the right mailing list for people that actually use that 
> stuff, so it may be quite a good idea to ask at a more appropriate forum, 
> like <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>.

I've asked the netbsd people already, if you (or Thiemo) would like to
ask the linux people that'd be great.

I think we can deprecate the assembler support, but keep the bfd support
around. Likely, though, it'll bit rot quite a bit over the years unless
someone uses it.

-eric