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From: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@adacore.com>
To: Rainer Orth <ro@cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de>
Cc: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, libstdc++@gcc.gnu.org,
	java-patches@gcc.gnu.org, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
Subject: Re: Remove obsolete Solaris 8 support
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:53:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201203151553.54821.ebotcazou@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yddipi6c4f1.fsf@manam.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>

> If we are, we'll never learn if this code is needed on anything beyond
> Solaris 8 and keep this cruft around basically forever.

So what?  This file is a big kludge and there is no value whatsoever in it 
being elegant or particularly readable or even efficient.

> I'll at least try a bootstrap with the nframes = 2 code ripped out with
> Solaris 9 FCS libc and libthread (and of course the whole rest: latest
> Solaris 9, 10 and 11) and see if anything breaks.

To make things clear upfront: I'll oppose any change that removes something.

-- 
Eric Botcazou

  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-15 14:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-12 17:45 Rainer Orth
2012-03-12 18:31 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2012-03-15 14:34   ` Rainer Orth
2012-03-12 18:38 ` Mike Stump
2012-03-12 18:49   ` Richard Kenner
2012-03-12 18:56     ` Rainer Orth
2012-03-12 18:49   ` Rainer Orth
2012-03-12 18:59     ` Mike Stump
2012-03-12 18:58   ` Steven Bosscher
2012-03-12 19:36 ` Bruce Korb
2012-03-12 20:14 ` Jonathan Wakely
2012-03-12 20:43 ` Tom Tromey
2012-03-12 20:43 ` Tom Tromey
2012-03-12 22:19 ` Eric Botcazou
2012-03-15 14:41   ` Rainer Orth
2012-03-15 14:53     ` Eric Botcazou [this message]
2012-06-30 10:02 ` Thomas Schwinge
2012-11-04 23:33   ` Thomas Schwinge

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