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Re: Obsoleting elfarm-oabi [was Re: PATCH: Reduce size of SymbianOSDLLs]

Hi Richard,

Some more archaeology.  Following a conversation with Phil Blundel, I
took a look at the old releases.  In binutils 2.9 there was NO support
for ELF on ARM of any kind.  In binutils 2.10 the old ABI was already
that -- old.

So if any release of binutils had the old ABI as its default, it wasn't
an FSF release?

Nick, could this be some GNU PRO legacy?

Thinking about it, yes I think that you are right. It must have been a release from back in the Cygnus days that happened between 2.9 and 2.10.

Given that there never was an official FSF release that supported this oabi I can see no reason to retain the code in the binutils sources. If there are any oabi users out there they can complain to Red Hat and get support there.

So - please do go ahead and delete the oabi code.

Cheers
  Nick

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