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Re: Remaining host configuration fragments
Robert Lipe wrote:
> Zack Weinberg wrote:
>
>
>>Some candidates for dropping:
>>
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> [ Numbers added ]
>
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>>1. Architectures which don't support ELF.
>>2. Architectures which were never updated to new varargs.
>>3. All configurations based on SVR3 or earlier.
>>4. All configurations based on 4.3BSD or earlier.
>>5. All configurations based on COFF.
>>
>
> #1 and #5 are somewhat related.
> For #3, there are active SVR3 systems that support ELF. (Yes, I know it
> sounds anachronistic.)
>
>
>>It is not easy to enumerate these. For the first one, I have a list:
>>
>> 1750a c4x convex elxsi ns32k romp we32k
>> a29k clipper dsp16xx i960 pdp11 vax
>>
>
> The embedded guys might still care about i960. Roaming through
> ChangeLogs, it looks more active than most of that list.
>
> I do applaud your goal of pruning dead code.
>
> RJL
>
>
Are you looking for more people to post their weekly test-results to
prove activity on coff configurations? I don't believe cygwin supports
ELF; I'm sure Bill Gates would approve of withdrawing gcc support, but
it appears more active than many others, and more of us could post
test-results if that helps.
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Tim Prince
tprince@computer.org