Re: BROKEN_LDEXP - still useful?

["Zack Weinberg" <zackw at Stanford dot EDU>]

On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 12:58:16AM -0500, Robert Lipe wrote:
> Zack Weinberg wrote:
> > 
> > Here y'go.  I removed i?86-*-sco3.2v4* and i?86-*-sco* which sets up
> > an even older set of configuration parameters.
> 
> Looks good to me (for the trunk), Zack.   I'm travelling and can't
> test it but if you've verified that we don't have things including
> the files you're vaporizing, I'm cool with it.

Yes, I did check that.

I'd forgotten to update POTFILES.in, but the patch I checked in does.
(the diff is uninteresting)

> > I'm now wondering how many old SVR3-based systems we are still
> > carrying around baggage for when they're thoroughly dead.  These are
> 
> I'll try to answer for the IA32 targets.
> 
> > i?86-*-isc*
> > i?86-*-lynxos*
> > i?86-*-sysv*
> 
> ISC was bought by Sun in the early part of the decade and ceased
> to produce a product under that badge.  Other than a token Y2K fix
> a few years ago, this has been dead for a long time.

Okay.

> Without knowing what exactly the "sysv*" stuff is trying to match, I'm
> guessing that a catch-all for the esoteric Unixen like Dell, UHC, Esix, 
> Consensys and such.   I think those are even less likely to be in active
> use than ISC.     If, OTOH, it matches something else, then it might be
> less dead than I'm suggesting.

I cannot be certain, but it *appears* that the current config.guess
will never generate a triple matching i?86-*-sysvX* where X <= 4.
sysv4* and sysv5* are caught by different config.gcc logic.

> > i?86-ibm-aix*
> 
> AIX for the PS/2.   Eeeeek!   Bad memories.   I'll let Dave have the 
> final vote, but I'm pretty sure this one is quite dead, too.

Okay.

You didn't say anything about i?86-*-lynxos*...

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