From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18092 invoked by alias); 22 Sep 2010 19:31:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 18072 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Sep 2010 19:31:19 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-wy0-f169.google.com (HELO mail-wy0-f169.google.com) (74.125.82.169) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 19:31:14 +0000 Received: by wyb36 with SMTP id 36so1089415wyb.0 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 12:31:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.227.153.3 with SMTP id i3mr574251wbw.171.1285183872312; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 12:31:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (rsandifo.gotadsl.co.uk [82.133.89.107]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id fz1sm4343124wbb.6.2010.09.22.12.31.10 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 22 Sep 2010 12:31:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Richard Sandiford To: binutils@sourceware.org Mail-Followup-To: binutils@sourceware.org, rdsandiford@googlemail.com Subject: Re: Release 2.21 - rough schedule References: <48A902C2-D801-401E-8FC1-3E5179D66B70@adacore.com> <20100918025913.GG16874@bubble.grove.modra.org> <1284997687.13878.32.camel@e102346-lin.cambridge.arm.com> <20100921003158.GL16874@bubble.grove.modra.org> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 19:31:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20100921003158.GL16874@bubble.grove.modra.org> (Alan Modra's message of "Tue, 21 Sep 2010 10:01:58 +0930") Message-ID: <87lj6tpocq.fsf@firetop.home> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-09/txt/msg00364.txt.bz2 Alan Modra writes: > On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 04:48:07PM +0100, Richard Earnshaw wrote: >> On Sat, 2010-09-18 at 12:29 +0930, Alan Modra wrote: >> > arm-aout arm-coff arm-epoc-pe arm-linux arm-netbsdelf arm-none-eabi arm-nto arm-pe arm-symbianelf arm-vxworks arm-wince-pe >> >> So arm-linux isn't very interesting these days, and nor is arm-aout >> (which I'm surprised we still claim to support at all). But > > Deprecate it. If ARM maintainers aren't interested in a target it's > likely that users are better served by staying with an older version > of binutils. Talking about deprecation, I wonder if anyone uses the non-ELF MIPS ports with up-to-date binutils? mips-ecoff has had terrible testresults for a while, but I've no idea whether the failures are benign. Richard