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Re: [doc PATCH] Obsolete support for POWER and POWER2
- From: David Edelsohn <dje dot gcc at gmail dot com>
- To: Segher Boessenkool <segher at kernel dot crashing dot org>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 22:51:21 -0400
- Subject: Re: [doc PATCH] Obsolete support for POWER and POWER2
- References: <1275009405-26906-1-git-send-email-segher@kernel.crashing.org>
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Segher Boessenkool
<segher@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> Probably no one uses these old processors anymore, and support for them
> is getting in the way of other work in the rs6000 port.
>
> Let's remove it in 4.6. ?Okay?
>
>
> Segher
>
>
> RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/gcc-4.5/changes.html,v
> retrieving revision 1.90
> diff -u -r1.90 changes.html
> --- changes.html ? ? ? ?27 Apr 2010 13:53:21 -0000 ? ? ?1.90
> +++ changes.html ? ? ? ?28 May 2010 00:58:41 -0000
> @@ -40,6 +40,10 @@
> ? ? ? ?href="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2010-01/msg00510.html";>announcement</a>.</li>
> ? ? </ul>
>
> + ? ?<p>Support for the POWER and POWER2 processors has been obsoleted in
> + ? ? ? the (increasingly misnamed) rs6000 port. ?This is the old POWER,
> + ? ? ? not Power Architecture.</p>
> +
> ? ? </li>
>
> ? ? <li>Support has been removed for all the
Please make another attempt at the language of the statement without
editorializing about the name of the port.
Thanks, David