Hi,
First off, Mark, if you think this stuff is too late for 4.0, I'll
postpone this to 4.1. Please note that all we have to do is add a few
lines to config.gcc as far as printing the "obsolete" message is
concerned.
Below, I propose to obsolete the following three architectures for GCC
4.0 and remove them for 4.1 unless somebody steps up and does *real
work*.
If you are working on these ports, please send us real patches.
If you would like to work on these ports privately, please refrain
from telling us that port xxx should be kept. More ports we have,
more work we would have to do to clean up the infrastructure
connecting the middle end and the backends.
arc
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No maintainer.
PR 8972 hasn't been fixed. GCC miscompiles a function as simple as.
int
f (int x, int i)
{
return x << i;
}
There were some recent interests like
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-10/msg00408.html
Obsoleting a port on the grounds of a single bug may seem a bit
strange. However, PR 8972 implies that nobody is working on the
FSF's mainline at least.
PR 8973 hasn't been fixed.
fr30
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The same justification as
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-06/msg01113.html
Nobody showed an interest in keeping this port.
i860
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A hardware implementation is not currently being manufactured.
Jason Eckhardt, the maintainer of i860, has told us that it would be
OK to go.
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2005-03/msg02033.html
ip2k
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PR 20582: libgcc build fails despite some interests, such as
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-06/msg01128.html
ns32k
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The same justification as
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-06/msg01113.html
Nobody showed an interest in keeping this port.
Kazu Hirata
