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Re:x86: Deprecate a.out support by moray on Friday March 08, 2019 @10:21AM (#19338262)
Here it refers to the binary executable file format not the default file name gcc uses after compilation.

a.out is a very old format superseded by ELF.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.out

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