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Re: "Dead" Ports (was: m68k MacOS target support?)
Bernd Schmidt wrote:
>
> On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
> >
> > Other opinions?
>
> I'm not necessarily requesting we add these to the "nuke immediately" list,
> but does anyone know whether romp/a29k/we32k/clipper/elxsi are likely to be
> in use? It also seems like these haven't been changed in any serious way
> for a long time either.
Kenner's examples show why it's important to do research on a target
and to move slowly on evaporating configurations. If a GCC config ever
worked at one time, it's quite likely it still has users, unless
all copies of the hardware have disappeared. I researched a couple
obscure configs for GDB (such as CX/UX), thinking they were dead, and
turned up whole web sites, including release notes for modified versions
of GNU tools, etc. By contrast, I was able to prove the Gould's demise
by finding a site that was an epitaph for the last one - and the site
described how that machine had been kept alive for several years by
cannibalizing the second-to-last Gould.
Stan