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Re: More code removal, mips ecoff support
- From: Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>
- To: Eric Christopher <echristo at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 19:08:33 -0800
- Subject: Re: More code removal, mips ecoff support
- References: <1007680473.22703.18.camel@ghostwheel.cygnus.com>
Eric Christopher wrote:
>
> I'm looking at current OSs that support ecoff on mips or any objections
> to removing the ecoff support from the backend. Anyone?
Woo, end of another era. Well, you don't see many Irix 4 or Mipsco
systems around anymore, and the only embedded users will be doing
r3000s of some flavor, so not much chance for user objections.
One of the heuristics I use for GDB obsolescence is to poke
around with Google. For instance, AMD used to have a page or two
mentioning the a29k, but now they strenuously deny they were ever
involved with it. :-) If the only references to ecoff are in
online GNU docs, then that's a hint that we're the last people
to support it...
> I also didn't see any comments (other than Richard's) about removing
> half-pic support from the compiler. Does no one care?
I can't even remember the last time I heard of anyone interested
in that stuff.
Stan