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Re: GCC policy on deprecating and removing targets
- From: Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>
- To: mark dot reinhold at oracle dot com, gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 18:44:32 -0700
- Subject: Re: GCC policy on deprecating and removing targets
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On 11/17/2017 02:20 PM, mark.reinhold@oracle.com wrote:
> Is https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/TargetDeprecationFAQ the authoritative
> definition of the policy for deprecating and then removing support
> for specific targets? If not, is there a more recent document?
> (That wiki page was last updated in 2008.)
It's still reasonably accurate. We tend to have folks doing a bit wider
scale testing than in the past, so for example you may find references
to myself or someone else testing some target that in reality is
probably ready for deprecation. So we're not likely to be as strict on #1.
Are you going to suggest deprecating a particular target or are you
trying to keep a particular target from being deprecated? :-)
jeff