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Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 07:56:00 -0000
From: Richard Biener <rguenther@suse.de>
To: Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>
cc: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>,     ubizjak@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH][www] Deprecate MPX for GCC 7
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On Tue, 23 May 2017, Jeff Law wrote:

> On 05/23/2017 06:50 AM, Richard Biener wrote:
> > 
> > Appearantly we forgot to officially deprecate MPX in GCC 7 changes.html.
> > 
> > The following adds the missing note.
> > 
> > Ok?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Richard.
> > 
> > 2017-05-23  Richard Biener  <rguenther@suse.de>
> > 
> > 	* gcc-7/changes.html: Deprecate MPX.
> I don't recall deprecating MPX.  I do recall deprecating Cilk+.

Ok, maybe I misremember.

> There's certainly folks at Intel fixing MPX related issues for GCC.

Sure.  But bootstrap with MPX is broken since forever and I don't see
anybody using the feature -- plus it's maintainance burden is quite
higher than Cilk+.

Well.  Let's keep it in mind then for GCC 8 deprecation.

Disclaimer: I was asked if we can remove it right now because of its
impact on cgraph code.

Richard.