From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8320 invoked by alias); 15 Jun 2008 22:12:09 -0000 Received: (qmail 8310 invoked by uid 22791); 15 Jun 2008 22:12:08 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp-out.google.com (HELO smtp-out.google.com) (216.239.33.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:11:48 +0000 Received: from zps35.corp.google.com (zps35.corp.google.com [172.25.146.35]) by smtp-out.google.com with ESMTP id m5FMBeL0005846; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:11:41 +0100 Received: from smtp.corp.google.com (spacemonkey2.corp.google.com [192.168.120.114]) by zps35.corp.google.com with ESMTP id m5FMBdpi021048 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:11:40 -0700 Received: from localhost.localdomain.google.com (adsl-71-133-8-30.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net [71.133.8.30]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.corp.google.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m5FMBavu017436 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:11:36 -0700 To: DJ Delorie Cc: "Joseph S. Myers" , gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: 4.4 deprecation proposals References: <200806152158.m5FLwgYH020053@greed.delorie.com> From: Ian Lance Taylor Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:12:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <200806152158.m5FLwgYH020053@greed.delorie.com> (DJ Delorie's message of "Sun\, 15 Jun 2008 17\:58\:42 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2008-06/txt/msg00339.txt.bz2 DJ Delorie writes: >> I thought DJGPP was i[34567]86-pc-msdosdjgpp*. I do not think >> having generic CPU-*-OBJFMT triplets that really refer to a >> particular OS is a good idea. It's only certain generic triplets >> I'm proposing to deprecate. > > DJGPP is ix86-pc-msdosdjgpp, yes. However, it's based on the > ix86-coff code (djgpp is coff-based) but not 100% binary compatible > (mostly due to the dos stub, but also due to preprocessor defines, > libraries, etc). > > Likewise, Cygwin and MinGW are based on the ix86-coff code but with PE > stubs and support for DLLs and such. My understanding is that Joseph is just talking about removing the entries in config.gcc. He is not talking about removing the support in the code, except perhaps for cases where there is no longer any entry in config.gcc which requires that support. Ian