Re: architectures with ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT but no binfmt_aout

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On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 11:42:35AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 01:26:54PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > Why _are_ there architectures which define ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT and have
> > <asm/a.out.h> but don't support binfmt_aout, anyway? How does that make
> > sense?
> 
> My guess would be that binfmt_aout isn't actually used there.

It was probably copied from MIPS in the early days of the parisc port
and nobody ever b othered to look at it before.  There was never an
a.out format for parisc.

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