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

[Paul Koning]

> On Aug 8, 2018, at 2:27 PM, Maciej W. Rozycki <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 8 Aug 2018, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> 
>>> Gold supports only a small fraction of the platforms that BFD does,
>> 
>> Which of the platforms that are still relevant for commercial applications
>> are supported by BFD which are not supported by Gold?
>> 
>> As far as I know, Gold support x86*, POWER*, ARM*, s390* and MIPS* which
>> covers all of the targets that distributions like Fedora, openSUSE and
>> Debian consider as supported release architectures.
> 
> 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).

        paul