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On Sep 23, 2010, at 12:58 AM, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Richard Sandiford wrote:
> 
>> Talking about deprecation, I wonder if anyone uses the non-ELF MIPS
>> ports with up-to-date binutils?  mips-ecoff has had terrible testresults
>> for a while, but I've no idea whether the failures are benign.
> 
> At least the capability to `objcopy' to ecoff-*mips has to stay for the 
> sake of some old systems' firmware requiring that format for boot images 
> (though some may prefer the `elf2ecoff' tool lurking around).  Therefore 
> I'd expect a need for the BFD target to stay for the foreseeable future; 
> the rest may or may not be required -- AFAIR DEC Ultrix support was 
> dropped from GCC a while ago; can't say about SGI IRIX or MIPSCO systems.

SGI Irix is ELF.