From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stan Shebs To: Richard Henderson Cc: Joe Buck , Mark Mitchell , gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: m68k MacOS target support? Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 19:12:00 -0000 Message-id: <39BEE28E.114C1E68@apple.com> References: <200009121814.LAA01174@racerx.synopsys.com> <39BE9914.30B35F3D@apple.com> <20000912175540.B8196@cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 2000-09/msg00244.html Richard Henderson wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 01:59:02PM -0700, Stan Shebs wrote: > > So I discussed this with RMS and came up with a obsoletion scheme, where > > old code is prominently marked as obsolete (by commenting out every > > line), announced as such in a release, and if nobody has come forward > > to revive it by the time of the next release, it gets completely removed. > > 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. Of these, I only researched the Pyramid thoroughly enough to determine that the platform was really and truly dead. I've been somewhat conservative, because sometimes we actually hear from someone actively using a supposedly-vanished type of system. > There are plenty of others that are also obsolete, but those named > have had many multiples of years completely and obviously not compiled. Yeah, they're pretty much just taking up disk space then. Stan