[cctalk] Re: Intel's i860, Cray-On-A-Chip

[Paul Koning via cctalk]

> On Oct 6, 2022, at 12:51 AM, Rodney Brown via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> According to gcc-9.1.0/NEWS Intel i860 was an architecture declared obsolete 
> in GCC 4.0 (and previously in GCC 3.1).

GCC does this in two steps.  One is that it's marked as obsolete but can still 
be built, you just get a warning.  The second is that the bits are actually 
removed.  If you want to run something old, it's probably still good until that 
final removal.  But given the lack of maintenance that triggers removal, it is 
certainly possible that there are some "bit rot" bugs before that point, 
possibly even before the first warning stage.

        paul