Re: Obsoleting unmaintained targets

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From: "Jim Wilson" <wilson@specifixinc.com>
To: <gcc-announce@gcc.gnu.org>
Cc: <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 12:18 AM
Subject: Obsoleting unmaintained targets


> In the GCC 3.4 release (still some time in the future), the GCC 
> developers are obsoleting a number of old unmaintained targets. 
> Obsoleting these old systems allows the development team to focus its 
> limited resources to support those systems that are used by more people.
> 
> These targets can still be configured by using the --enable-obsolete 
> option.  If no one steps forward to maintain these targets, they will be 
> deleted in a future gcc release.
> 
> Below, please find the complete list, in the form of GNU target 
> triplets.  This has been extensively revised from the list that was 
> originally posted in March.
> 
> If you feel strongly that support for one of these targets should not be 
> removed, please contact us by email to gcc@gcc.gnu.org.  Traditionally, 
> GCC has been more receptive to requests that a particular target not be 
> removed if a volunteer is available to maintain that target, so if 
> you're interested in volunteering you should state that explicitly. 
> Also, "there are 1000 of us using this machine heavily all day long and 
> we were planning to upgrade to GCC 3.4" is probably more likely to sway 
> the development team than "I think there is still one of those in my 
> closet." :-)
> 
> All targets for these architectures have been obsoleted:
> d30v-*
> dsp16xx-*
> i370-*
> i960-*
> 
> Individual targets that have been obsoleted:
> i?86-moss-msdos
> i?86-*-moss*
> i?86-ncr-sysv4*
> i?86-*-netware
> i?86-*-freebsd2*
> i?86-*-freebsd*aout*
> i?86-*-linux*aout*
> i?86-*-linux*libc1*
> # This does not affect Interix3 support which remains.
> i?86-*-interix
> i?86-*-mach*
> i?86-*-udk*
> i?86-*-sysv[123]*
> i386-*-vsta
> 
> m68k-hp-hpux*
> m68000-hp-hpux*
> m68k-*-sysv4*
> 
> # This is only the a.out netbsd targets, the elf netbsd targets
> # remain.
> m68k*-*-netbsd*
> 
> # This is only the default target, which is no longer useful.
> # The *BSD, Ultrix, and Sysv targets remain.
> vax-*-*
> -- 
> Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.SpecifixInc.com
> 
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