* Re: "Dead" Ports (was: m68k MacOS target support?)
@ 2000-09-13 10:25 Richard Kenner
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From: Richard Kenner @ 2000-09-13 10:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: bernds; +Cc: gcc
I'm not necessarily requesting we add these to the "nuke immediately"
list, but does anyone know whether romp/a29k/we32k/clipper/elxsi are
likely to be in use?
Well, one of my primary machines (not used for software development, though)
is a ROMP. And I think there are still plenty of pieces of equipment out
there that use the AMD 29k.
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* Re: "Dead" Ports (was: m68k MacOS target support?)
2000-09-13 9:33 ` Bernd Schmidt
@ 2000-09-13 11:40 ` Stan Shebs
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From: Stan Shebs @ 2000-09-13 11:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Bernd Schmidt; +Cc: gcc
Bernd Schmidt wrote:
>
> On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
> >
> > Other opinions?
>
> I'm not necessarily requesting we add these to the "nuke immediately" list,
> but does anyone know whether romp/a29k/we32k/clipper/elxsi are likely to be
> in use? It also seems like these haven't been changed in any serious way
> for a long time either.
Kenner's examples show why it's important to do research on a target
and to move slowly on evaporating configurations. If a GCC config ever
worked at one time, it's quite likely it still has users, unless
all copies of the hardware have disappeared. I researched a couple
obscure configs for GDB (such as CX/UX), thinking they were dead, and
turned up whole web sites, including release notes for modified versions
of GNU tools, etc. By contrast, I was able to prove the Gould's demise
by finding a site that was an epitaph for the last one - and the site
described how that machine had been kept alive for several years by
cannibalizing the second-to-last Gould.
Stan
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* Re: "Dead" Ports (was: m68k MacOS target support?)
2000-09-13 9:26 ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-09-13 9:33 ` Bernd Schmidt
@ 2000-09-13 9:57 ` Bruce Korb
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From: Bruce Korb @ 2000-09-13 9:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: law
Cc: Gerald Pfeifer, Richard Henderson, Stan Shebs, Joe Buck,
Mark Mitchell, gcc
Jeffrey A Law wrote:
> Other opinions?
How about other cruft? The include fixes are also
monotonically increasing in size, too. Surely
*some* of the fixes are obsolete. :-)
It would be trivial to hack up a version that would
report the fixes that made a difference somewhere.
What would be hard is deciding how to ensure the
hacked version was exercised on the relevant, active
platforms. Probably not today....
- Bruce
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* Re: "Dead" Ports (was: m68k MacOS target support?)
2000-09-13 9:26 ` Jeffrey A Law
@ 2000-09-13 9:33 ` Bernd Schmidt
2000-09-13 11:40 ` Stan Shebs
2000-09-13 9:57 ` Bruce Korb
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From: Bernd Schmidt @ 2000-09-13 9:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jeffrey A Law
Cc: Gerald Pfeifer, Richard Henderson, Stan Shebs, Joe Buck,
Mark Mitchell, gcc
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
>
> Other opinions?
I'm not necessarily requesting we add these to the "nuke immediately" list,
but does anyone know whether romp/a29k/we32k/clipper/elxsi are likely to be
in use? It also seems like these haven't been changed in any serious way
for a long time either.
Bernd
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* Re: "Dead" Ports (was: m68k MacOS target support?)
2000-09-12 22:44 ` "Dead" Ports (was: m68k MacOS target support?) Gerald Pfeifer
@ 2000-09-13 9:26 ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-09-13 9:33 ` Bernd Schmidt
2000-09-13 9:57 ` Bruce Korb
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From: Jeffrey A Law @ 2000-09-13 9:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Gerald Pfeifer
Cc: Richard Henderson, Stan Shebs, Joe Buck, Mark Mitchell, gcc
In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009130740070.67582-100000@taygeta.dbai.tuwien.ac.a
t>you write:
> On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Richard Henderson wrote:
> > Personally, I think we ought to immediately nuke all the ports that
> > were never updated from gcc 1.x, and that have been commented out in
> > the configure file since gcc 2.0.
> >
> > Namely: fx80, ns32k-ns-genix, pyramid, tahoe, gmicro.
> >
> > There are plenty of others that are also obsolete, but those named
> > have had many multiples of years completely and obviously not compiled.
>
> I second this.
>
> How about announcing this plan to gcc-announce and, unless there are
> significant and founded objections, nuke the part after, say, 3 weeks?
Let's add the spur chip to the list above and make the announcement/request.
Other opinions?
jeff
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* "Dead" Ports (was: m68k MacOS target support?)
2000-09-12 17:55 m68k MacOS target support? Richard Henderson
@ 2000-09-12 22:44 ` Gerald Pfeifer
2000-09-13 9:26 ` Jeffrey A Law
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From: Gerald Pfeifer @ 2000-09-12 22:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Richard Henderson; +Cc: Stan Shebs, Joe Buck, Mark Mitchell, gcc
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Richard Henderson wrote:
> Personally, I think we ought to immediately nuke all the ports that
> were never updated from gcc 1.x, and that have been commented out in
> the configure file since gcc 2.0.
>
> Namely: fx80, ns32k-ns-genix, pyramid, tahoe, gmicro.
>
> There are plenty of others that are also obsolete, but those named
> have had many multiples of years completely and obviously not compiled.
I second this.
How about announcing this plan to gcc-announce and, unless there are
significant and founded objections, nuke the part after, say, 3 weeks?
Gerald
--
Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/
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