Re: Are there still non-ELF BSD systems?

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Are there still non-ELF BSD systems?
Date: 2019-07-01 23:03:53
Message-ID: de37e33b-8728-182d-0707-522ba66c1349@2ndquadrant.com
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On 2019-06-12 16:06, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> I checked around a bit ... all of the *BSD systems in the buildfarm
> report ELF_SYS='true', so it's safe to say that the code you want to
> remove is untested.
>
> Excavation in the various BSDens' change logs suggests that the last
> one to fully drop a.out was OpenBSD, which didn't do so until 5.5
> (released 1 May 2015). That's more recent than I'd have hoped for,
> though it looks like the holdout architectures were ones we don't
> support anyway (e.g., m68k, vax).
>
> If we're considering this change for v13, it's hard to believe
> there'd be any objections in practice.

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