Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86: clean up after removal of support for gcc <= 2.8.1

[Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>]

On 29.11.2022 00:21, H.J. Lu wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 12:58 AM Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> wrote:
>>
>> At the very least a comment in process_operands() is stale. Beyond that
>> there are effectively two options:
>> 1) It is possible that FADDP and FMULP were mistakenly not marked as
>>    being in need of dealing with the compiler anomaly, and hence the
>>    respective templates weren't removed at the time when they should
>>    have been.
>> 2) It is also possible that there are indeed uses known beyond compiler
>>    generated output for these two commutative opcodes, and hence the
>>    templates need to stay.
>> To be on the safe side assume 2: Update the comment and fold the
>> templates into their "normal" ones (utilizing D), adjusting consuming
>> code accordingly.
>>
>> For FMULP also add a comment paralleling a similar one FADDP has.
> 
> Please mention dropping GCC 2.8.1 support in gas/NEWS.

For the old release, many, many years ago, when that support was dropped?
I'm not dropping any support here, I'm merely cleaning up after that sort
of incomplete dropping. And the title also clearly says exactly that.

Jan