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

[Cary Coutant]

>> Why isn't *what* done on gold? Gold is ELF-only and doesn't use BFD.
>
> Development of new features. I know that Gold is ELF-only that's why
> I was wondering why BFD isn't just kept in maintenance mode.

Gold supports only a small fraction of the platforms that BFD does,
and many of those platforms don't use ELF. In addition, almost all of
the other binutils tools use BFD. BFD is far from being relegated to
maintenance mode.

-cary