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Re: patch/proposal: obsolete configurations in 3.1
Paul Koning wrote:
>
> Excerpt of message (sent 16 April 2002) by Joel Sherrill:
> >
> >
> > David O'Brien wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > i[34567]86-*-aout*)
> > > i[34567]86-*-coff*)
> >
> > In general, any target of the form CPU-*-OBJECT_FORMAT* should be
> > left in since it is a very basic target to use as a baseline for
> > a port and they are commonly used in the embedded world.
>
> I'll second that. If I need GCC for some RTOS, the first step is to
> start with a "generic" target like that. Quite often, that's all
> that's needed.
I should have also added that many of them correspond to simulator
targets in gdb and are used for generic cross testing of the
code generation. Many bugs tend to be CPU not OS specific so
this is very useful. Consequently, I try to duplicate bugs
found in rtems targets in generic object format targets to
indicate they are applicable across all targets in the CPU
family.
> paul
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