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Re: RFA: Use .opt files for the i860 port



On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Zack Weinberg wrote:

> Richard Sandiford <rsandifo@redhat.com> writes:
>
> > Strange one this.  All the i860 options control a target macro called
> > TARGET_XP, but nothing ever checks it!  I didn't know whether to keep
> > them anyway or not.
> >
> > Tested by building i860-stardent-sysv4 as far as it'll go (it ICEs
> > building crtstuff for unrelated reasons).  I needed the attached i860.c
> > patch in order to get a clean build of cc1 since i860.c is still passing
> > three arguments to build_int_cst.
>
> Hmm.  i860 has already been dropped once.  The hardware is long out of
> production.  I don't see why we're keeping it around, especially if it
> doesn't build.
>

  I had resurrected it and done some major surgery to keep it alive for
  the sake of my own projects (e.g., Linux/i860) and a handful of other
  people who actually have and use i860 hardware (watch out Alpha fans,
  you'll be this few soon :) ).

  But now that I have ported LLVM to the i860, I am ready to "let go"
  of the gcc i860 back-end.  You have my blessing to remove it.

  jason.


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