From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com (us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com [170.10.133.124]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C9593854804 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2021 11:18:21 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.1 sourceware.org 3C9593854804 Received: from mail-wm1-f70.google.com (mail-wm1-f70.google.com [209.85.128.70]) (Using TLS) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP id us-mta-284-WK3TG2-aNEO7n93wz2wGEA-1; Mon, 14 Jun 2021 07:18:19 -0400 X-MC-Unique: WK3TG2-aNEO7n93wz2wGEA-1 Received: by mail-wm1-f70.google.com with SMTP id m33-20020a05600c3b21b02901a44b1d2d87so5553744wms.3 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2021 04:18:19 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:cc:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=TUbbfsjJf8wxL3mpO2BaTrT4JryRZl1bkIkzvO9lSFE=; b=sl6DlUyhe8QG0e7pfh48s8s4LkYQXNBf1rvVicUKrOw6y3Zxqnm5cB+TUjtGaX7IAq oGad693ZH4c12kWQEPn8uCgvmg1OW9KYDdkL1amKUYaWVTjDDAZzbUKgG55W7sc9rj5e C6ELOQI6axndQLs8HRQIA35MkD1qTmpbNf0ITrqZPdKnP81WRJKFqM2tbo12jm9+mH5R D1wi6dMwEL+KaSX4+B9xvomYNnO05LZ3+4VcKia4ryEtcS3/ixBaltDBBHk/uDhJWX70 2KpucWbXa26bOUMFWhJXCIs+4aH08r7i1BXAzO6ynE7K3FsJQz1NOc1PEfP/0fnKXRdZ WScQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM53090X/wicYF6odwL2Q0+DEE/e06Lxc/dDAwufcR4QIkVjrIe3yG 4tVfyY99uaw+QiwAekEmJ4wfpsTQSfZK44IyUTY0dBqlWxn9ECRROvPwLQSNlSX2S2I1vQs50/b GlWiEJLc= X-Received: by 2002:adf:906a:: with SMTP id h97mr18448737wrh.311.1623669498829; Mon, 14 Jun 2021 04:18:18 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJwm+C0SFWJlvdRkeTGpAGiyX5qzLA13Ha5C0xi23PAznThI/nXJtzqD20xcEuV0GYZzAKt0Ng== X-Received: by 2002:adf:906a:: with SMTP id h97mr18448720wrh.311.1623669498627; Mon, 14 Jun 2021 04:18:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.5] ([80.168.238.114]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id u7sm18802581wrt.18.2021.06.14.04.18.17 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 14 Jun 2021 04:18:18 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Making *-netbsd-* to mean ELF not a.out for all CPUs To: John Ericson , binutils@sourceware.org, gcc@gcc.gnu.org Cc: Alyssa Ross References: <465efd4f-542c-48b9-8f2d-081b37c872fa@www.fastmail.com> From: Nick Clifton Message-ID: Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2021 12:18:17 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.10.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <465efd4f-542c-48b9-8f2d-081b37c872fa@www.fastmail.com> X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU, DKIM_VALID_EF, NICE_REPLY_A, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H4, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS, TXREP autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: gcc@gcc.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Gcc mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2021 11:18:22 -0000 Hi John, > But they did offer some tentative support for my second suggestion of changing the meaning of bare "netbsd" --- "netbsdaout" would still be available to unambiguously request a.out for anyone that wants it. I think that this would be OK for the binutils, providing that when configuring for just "netbsd" there was a prominentant message in the config log saying something like: "netbsd format now treated as ELF based. Use netbsdaout if you want a.out format files". (Probably with slightly better wording than that). Cheers Nick