Re: [PATCH] Remove dead code.

[Richard Biener <richard.guenther@gmail.com>]

On November 12, 2021 8:18:59 PM GMT+01:00, "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 11:15 AM Richard Biener
><richard.guenther@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On November 12, 2021 3:41:41 PM GMT+01:00, "H.J. Lu via Gcc-patches" <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
>> >On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 6:27 AM Martin Liška <mliska@suse.cz> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On 11/8/21 15:19, Jeff Law wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > On 11/8/2021 2:59 AM, Jakub Jelinek via Gcc-patches wrote:
>> >> >> On Mon, Nov 08, 2021 at 09:45:39AM +0100, Martin Liška wrote:
>> >> >>> This fixes issue reported in the PR.
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> Ready to be installed?
>> >> >> I'm not sure.  liboffloadmic is copied from upstream, so the right
>> >> >> thing if we want to do anything at all (if we don't remove it, nothing
>> >> >> bad happens, the condition is never true anyway, whether removed away
>> >> >> in the source or removed by the compiler) would be to let Intel fix it in
>> >> >> their source and update from that.
>> >> >> But I have no idea where it even lives upstream.
>> >> > I thought MIC as an architecture was dead, so it could well be the case that there isn't a viable upstream anymore for that code.
>> >> >
>> >> > jeff
>> >>
>> >> @H.J. ?
>> >>
>> >
>> >We'd like to deprecate MIC offload in GCC 12.  We will remove all traces of
>> >MIC offload in GCC 13.
>>
>> Can you document that in gcc-12/changes.html in the caveats section please?
>>
>
>I will do that.
>
>Can you review my last wwwdocs change:
>
>https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2021-August/578344.html

That change is OK. 

Richard. 

>Thanks.
>