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Support on ARM for the legacy floating-point accelerator (FPA) and
+ the mixed-endian floating-point format that it used has been obsoleted.
+ The ports that still use this format have been obsoleted as well.
+ Many legacy ARM ports already provide an alternative that uses the
+ VFP floating-point format. The obsolete ports will be deleted in the
+ next release.
+
+ The obsolete ports with alternatives are:
+
+
+ - arm*-*-rtems (use arm*-*-rtemseabi)
+ - arm*-*-linux-gnu (use arm*-*-linux-gnueabi)
+ - arm*-*-elf (use arm*-*-eabi)
+ - arm*-*-uclinux* (use arm*-*-uclinux*eabi)
+
+ Note, however, that these alternatives are not binary compatible
+ with their legacy counterparts (although some can support running legacy
+ applications).
+ The obsolete ports that currently lack a modern alternative are:
+
+
+ - arm*-*-ecos-elf
+ - arm*-*-freebsd
+ - arm*-wince-pe*
+
+
+ New ports that support more recent versions of the architecture
+ are welcome.
+ Support for the Maverick co-processor on ARM has been obsoleted.
+ Code to support it will be deleted in the next release.
Support has been removed for Unix International threads on Solaris
2, so the --enable-threads=solaris
configure option and
the -threads
compiler option don't work any longer.