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I'm curious how much overhead and developer-time keeping a.out support adds? I'm generally of the mindset to keep something until there's reason to remove it.
by donatj 5y ago
I'm curious how much overhead and developer-time keeping a.out support adds?
I'm generally of the mindset to keep something until there's reason to remove it.
- incompatible 5y agoPerhaps it's potentially an attack vector for security holes, and removing it means no more worries?
- userbinator 5y agoELF seems like a bigger attack surface due to its complexity.
- manfre 5y agoIt would be impossible to quantify, but all code has a maintenance cost. Removing a.out was brought up several times. That strongly implies its overhead crosses the threshold to be noticed.