From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1fnT9q-0000zk-Vr for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2018 14:26:07 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38830) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fnT9o-0000zF-RH for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2018 14:26:05 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fnT9l-0004Ci-NZ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2018 14:26:04 -0400 Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]:52834) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fnT9l-0004BN-HK for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2018 14:26:01 -0400 Received: from frontend01.mail.m-online.net (unknown [192.168.8.182]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41m0FK0LQRz1qvgG; Wed, 8 Aug 2018 20:25:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (dynscan1.mnet-online.de [192.168.6.70]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41m0FK01m8z1qrVj; Wed, 8 Aug 2018 20:25:56 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mnet-online.de Received: from mail.mnet-online.de ([192.168.8.182]) by localhost (dynscan1.mail.m-online.net [192.168.6.70]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id XLDEVhIe2o9O; Wed, 8 Aug 2018 20:25:56 +0200 (CEST) X-Auth-Info: JbS416csSOJyjF0laM3B64piirPNXst9ICVNSNKCOh2W3PI54hqcp3KnkH+Ov5WW Received: from igel.home (ppp-188-174-158-129.dynamic.mnet-online.de [188.174.158.129]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA; Wed, 8 Aug 2018 20:25:56 +0200 (CEST) Received: by igel.home (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 95C502C1161; Wed, 8 Aug 2018 20:25:55 +0200 (CEST) From: Andreas Schwab To: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Cc: Cary Coutant , Alan Modra , Binutils , The development of GNU GRUB Subject: Re: Recent removal of a.out and COFF support for sparc References: <2d2f1c2a-1715-1348-c35a-ad562a3acbb2@physik.fu-berlin.de> <27449274-9250-97a3-1ff9-8b9c818659d4@physik.fu-berlin.de> <20180808015529.GP26457@bubble.grove.modra.org> <20180808131659.GA1544@bubble.grove.modra.org> <643f686e-d568-978d-07ab-31a62336966f@physik.fu-berlin.de> <91ae25c5-4af2-575f-b167-7e46027de7df@physik.fu-berlin.de> X-Yow: YOW!! Everybody out of the GENETIC POOL! Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2018 20:25:55 +0200 In-Reply-To: (John Paul Adrian Glaubitz's message of "Wed, 8 Aug 2018 20:11:13 +0200") Message-ID: <87in4kg1fw.fsf@igel.home> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 212.18.0.9 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2018 18:26:05 -0000 On Aug 08 2018, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > What about elfutils for these purposes? I have been told by gcc people > that elfutils was supposed to replace binutils in this regard. BFD is also used by GAS and GPROF. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."