From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18332 invoked by alias); 15 Mar 2012 14:53:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 18219 invoked by uid 22791); 15 Mar 2012 14:53:46 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mel.act-europe.fr (HELO mel.act-europe.fr) (194.98.77.210) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:53:29 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-smtp.eu.adacore.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3EC429003D; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:53:29 +0100 (CET) Received: from mel.act-europe.fr ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.eu.adacore.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id odvOWuFOWoUG; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:53:29 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (bon31-6-88-161-99-133.fbx.proxad.net [88.161.99.133]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mel.act-europe.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EA0329003A; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:53:29 +0100 (CET) From: Eric Botcazou To: Rainer Orth Subject: Re: Remove obsolete Solaris 8 support Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:53:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, libstdc++@gcc.gnu.org, java-patches@gcc.gnu.org, Ian Lance Taylor References: <201203122319.42906.ebotcazou@adacore.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <201203151553.54821.ebotcazou@adacore.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact java-patches-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: java-patches-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2012-q1/txt/msg00062.txt.bz2 > If we are, we'll never learn if this code is needed on anything beyond > Solaris 8 and keep this cruft around basically forever. So what? This file is a big kludge and there is no value whatsoever in it being elegant or particularly readable or even efficient. > I'll at least try a bootstrap with the nframes = 2 code ripped out with > Solaris 9 FCS libc and libthread (and of course the whole rest: latest > Solaris 9, 10 and 11) and see if anything breaks. To make things clear upfront: I'll oppose any change that removes something. -- Eric Botcazou