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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:

    + + +

    Note, however, that these alternatives are not binary compatible + with their legacy counterparts (although some can support running legacy + applications).

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    The obsolete ports that currently lack a modern alternative are:

    + + + + New ports that support more recent versions of the architecture + are welcome.
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  • 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.