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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: "H.J. Lu via Libc-alpha" <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: Deprecate ia64 in glibc 2.34
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* H. J. Lu via Libc-alpha:

> ia64 support has been obsoleted in binutils 2.36 by
>
> commit 73d0dc162e04036ef4752f2cdc09cbfff8437c22
> Author: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
> Date:   Thu Aug 13 14:13:43 2020 +0930
>
>     Obsolete ia64
>
>             * config.bfd: Obsolete ia64*-*-*.
>
> Should glibc also deprecate ia64 in 2.34?

There's been a related discussion:

  [PATCH] NEWS: Deprecate ia64-linux-gnu
  <https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2021-January/122149.html>

Consensus was not to deprecate the architecture, I think.  But the
binutils deprecation wasn't mentioned in the discussion.

Thanks,
Florian
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