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From: Richard Biener <richard.guenther@gmail.com>
To: Bernd Schmidt <bschmidt@redhat.com>
Cc: John David Anglin <dave.anglin@bell.net>,
	Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>,
		Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>,
	"Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@redhat.com>,
	Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com>,
		Bernd Edlinger <bernd.edlinger@hotmail.de>,
		"gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org" <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>,
	Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Implement new hook for max_align_t_align
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 12:43:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFiYyc0+GT4v-GUDP20xsW6drXzgNNMtibr1oRaKb8iQORu2Ug@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <946f9b72-ca43-9306-9546-20b32793f9e0@redhat.com>

On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 2:33 PM, Bernd Schmidt <bschmidt@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 10/12/2016 02:12 PM, John David Anglin wrote:
>>
>> On 2016-10-12, at 4:02 AM, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
>>
>>>> Since this is PA-RISC, which is essentially dead (neither HPE nor Debian
>>>> ship it anymore), I stand by my suggestion to bump the fundamental
>>>> alignment
>>>
>>>
>>> Or just drop support for a dead arch?
>>
>>
>> Hardware is still available on the second hand market.
>
>
> So is the Commodore 64, but is that enough though to keep supporting PA in
> gcc? Anyone who wants to do retrocomputing can still use gcc-6 or earlier
> versions.

I'd say what applies to PA should apply equally well to the pdp11 and
the alpha port ...

But usually the question is just whether the port has a maintainer
and/or whether it is
a maintainance burden to keep it (say, last user of obsolete feature X).

Richard.

>
> Bernd

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-12 12:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-08 17:01 Bernd Edlinger
2016-10-08 17:36 ` John David Anglin
2016-10-09  8:35   ` Bernd Edlinger
2016-10-09 17:52     ` John David Anglin
2016-10-10 18:21       ` John David Anglin
2016-10-11 18:51         ` Jason Merrill
2016-10-11 18:59           ` DJ Delorie
2016-10-11 20:12             ` Jason Merrill
2016-10-11 20:55               ` John David Anglin
2016-10-11 20:57                 ` Jakub Jelinek
2016-10-11 21:27                 ` Jason Merrill
2016-10-11 20:04           ` John David Anglin
2016-10-12  7:02             ` Carlos O'Donell
2016-10-12  7:25               ` Jakub Jelinek
2016-10-12  7:52                 ` Florian Weimer
2016-10-12  8:02                   ` Jakub Jelinek
2016-10-12 12:13                     ` John David Anglin
2016-10-12 12:33                       ` Bernd Schmidt
2016-10-12 12:43                         ` Richard Biener [this message]
2016-10-12 12:46                           ` Bernd Schmidt
2016-10-12 15:51                           ` Joseph Myers
2016-10-12 13:48                     ` Jason Merrill
2016-10-12 14:17                       ` John David Anglin
2016-10-12 19:59                         ` Carlos O'Donell
2016-10-12 16:14                     ` Jeff Law
2016-10-12 17:24                       ` John David Anglin
2017-02-25 17:46                         ` Gerald Pfeifer
2017-02-25 22:13                           ` John David Anglin
2017-02-25 22:46                             ` Gerald Pfeifer
2017-02-25 23:46                               ` John David Anglin
2016-10-12 18:01                       ` Florian Weimer
2016-10-12 18:13                         ` John David Anglin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-10-08 16:43 Bernd Edlinger
2016-10-08 15:45 John David Anglin

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