Sven Barth wrote:
On 25.12.2012 11:32, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
Although I think the time is approaching when some CPUs- IA-64 etc.- and
OSes could usefully be moved into an "attic" subtree.
They aren't compiled anyway, so they don't affect the compiler's
performance negatively.
So it does not matter whether they are inside the compiler tree or
something else. And after all there could somebody who takes enough
interest to implement such a CPU... *cough* m68k *cough* ;)
Agreed. But combinations that don't compile meaningfully (e.g. the
compiler targeting IA-64) or at all without at least backported patches
(various RTLs including MacOS Classic, Amiga etc.) could IMO usefully be
in compiler/attic and rtl/attic. In other words, anything in the main
directories should compile and run, and if somebody spots that that is
no longer the case then it's a candidate for being fixed.
Obviously this is a personal opinion. I for one am not trying to hector,
badger, buffalo or otherwise irritate the coee team :-)
--
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
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