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Re: Recent removal of a.out and COFF support for sparc


From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Subject: Re: Recent removal of a.out and COFF support for sparc
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2018 23:26:09 +0200
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On 08/08/2018 08:30 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
>> We have dozens of bare metal targets which only have support in BFD.  
>> Some of these architectures happen to have Linux support too, for embedded 
>> applications.  All the world is not Linux. 
> 
> Indeed.  For example, NetBSD support 57 platforms (not quite that many 
> architectures, but a lot more than Linux).

Not really. Linux supports about 25 unique architectures multiplied by various 
sub-
architectures. You are counting sub-architectures as individual targets in 
NetBSD.
You are already counting four or five different m68k targets which are covered 
by a
single m68k target on Linux.

Adrian

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