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From:   "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
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On Thu, 23 Sep 2010, Tristan Gingold wrote:

> > 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.

 Not originally, I believe -- and the contents of our config.bfd suggest 
that version 5 was the first one to use ELF.  And I meant the ECOFF-only 
releases here of course.

  Maciej