* Discussion: Removal of mips half-pic @ 2001-12-04 0:51 Eric Christopher 2001-12-04 10:24 ` Richard Henderson 2001-12-10 9:10 ` Michael Meissner 0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Eric Christopher @ 2001-12-04 0:51 UTC (permalink / raw) To: gcc Hi all, I thought I'd throw this out here since as far as I can tell it isn't used anymore, but other comments are welcome. I'm thinking of removing the half-pic support from the mips backend. I can't think of a current use for it and don't believe it's been used in years. Are there any suggestions for a timeline, or can anyone think of a reason to keep it around? Thanks. -eric ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: Discussion: Removal of mips half-pic 2001-12-04 0:51 Discussion: Removal of mips half-pic Eric Christopher @ 2001-12-04 10:24 ` Richard Henderson 2001-12-10 9:47 ` Michael Meissner 2001-12-10 9:10 ` Michael Meissner 1 sibling, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Richard Henderson @ 2001-12-04 10:24 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Eric Christopher; +Cc: gcc On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 12:51:36AM -0800, Eric Christopher wrote: > I thought I'd throw this out here since as far as I can tell it isn't > used anymore, but other comments are welcome. I'm thinking of removing > the half-pic support from the mips backend. I think the discussion should be about half-pic across the entire compiler. Does anyone know if any such OSF/1 systems are still live? (And before anyone gets confused that's OSF/1 as distributed by OSF, not OSF/1 nee DU nee Tru64 as distributed by Digital.) r~ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: Discussion: Removal of mips half-pic 2001-12-04 10:24 ` Richard Henderson @ 2001-12-10 9:47 ` Michael Meissner 0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Michael Meissner @ 2001-12-10 9:47 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Richard Henderson, Eric Christopher, gcc On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 10:24:53AM -0800, Richard Henderson wrote: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 12:51:36AM -0800, Eric Christopher wrote: > > I thought I'd throw this out here since as far as I can tell it isn't > > used anymore, but other comments are welcome. I'm thinking of removing > > the half-pic support from the mips backend. > > I think the discussion should be about half-pic across the entire > compiler. Does anyone know if any such OSF/1 systems are still live? > (And before anyone gets confused that's OSF/1 as distributed by OSF, > not OSF/1 nee DU nee Tru64 as distributed by Digital.) I just out a call to see if there were any people still using it. I suspect not. -- Michael Meissner, Red Hat, Inc. (GCC group) PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886, USA Work: meissner@redhat.com phone: +1 978-486-9304 Non-work: meissner@spectacle-pond.org fax: +1 978-692-4482 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: Discussion: Removal of mips half-pic 2001-12-04 0:51 Discussion: Removal of mips half-pic Eric Christopher 2001-12-04 10:24 ` Richard Henderson @ 2001-12-10 9:10 ` Michael Meissner 1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Michael Meissner @ 2001-12-10 9:10 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Eric Christopher; +Cc: gcc On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 12:51:36AM -0800, Eric Christopher wrote: > Hi all, > I thought I'd throw this out here since as far as I can tell it isn't > used anymore, but other comments are welcome. I'm thinking of removing > the half-pic support from the mips backend. I can't think of a current > use for it and don't believe it's been used in years. Are there any > suggestions for a timeline, or can anyone think of a reason to keep it > around? The only time it was used was in OSF/1.0 (from OSF, not from DEC), which used the OSF/rose object format (roughly 1990 time frame). OSF/1.1 used the standard ELF tools (and no longer supported the MIPS anyway). I asked on the OSF alums mailing list, and could find no extant users of the MIPS half-pic stuff (which was sort half-baked anyway, and required you to pass -l options at compile time for the libraries you intended to use). I think there may have 1 or 2 people with 386/486's with the x86 half-pic stuff, but they weren't getting new compilers. I would drop support for the osfrose object file format at the same time (from mips, x86, and ns32k). I've been meaning to do it for years. -- Michael Meissner, Red Hat, Inc. (GCC group) PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886, USA Work: meissner@redhat.com phone: +1 978-486-9304 Non-work: meissner@spectacle-pond.org fax: +1 978-692-4482 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
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