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Re: 4.4 deprecation proposals
DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com> writes:
>> I thought DJGPP was i[34567]86-pc-msdosdjgpp*. I do not think
>> having generic CPU-*-OBJFMT triplets that really refer to a
>> particular OS is a good idea. It's only certain generic triplets
>> I'm proposing to deprecate.
>
> DJGPP is ix86-pc-msdosdjgpp, yes. However, it's based on the
> ix86-coff code (djgpp is coff-based) but not 100% binary compatible
> (mostly due to the dos stub, but also due to preprocessor defines,
> libraries, etc).
>
> Likewise, Cygwin and MinGW are based on the ix86-coff code but with PE
> stubs and support for DLLs and such.
My understanding is that Joseph is just talking about removing the
entries in config.gcc. He is not talking about removing the support
in the code, except perhaps for cases where there is no longer any
entry in config.gcc which requires that support.
Ian