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Re: RFA: Use .opt files for the i860 port
- From: Jason Eckhardt <jle at owlnet dot rice dot edu>
- To: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Richard Sandiford <rsandifo at redhat dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org,jle at rice dot edu
- Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 15:37:05 -0600 (CST)
- Subject: Re: RFA: Use .opt files for the i860 port
- References: <87k6o0k9s9.fsf@firetop.home> <87mzswwv3l.fsf@codesourcery.com>
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.