Re: Request for suggestions: xm-romp.h

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

On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 10:06:38PM -0500, Richard Kenner wrote:
>     As I said, this is a platform they (IBM, that is) stopped making in
>     1991.  I was using one in 1998, as a terminal, but I didn't have the
>     compiler LPP so I don't know whether hc was the system compiler or a
>     3rd-party product.
> 
> I still use one, but pretty much for the same reason.
> 
>     Thinking about it a bit more, maybe it does make sense to drop the
>     target entirely.  Retro-computing fanatics will probably be quite
>     happy with gcc 2.x.
> 
> I'd feel bad about it too because it was the first machine I ported
> GCC to.  But it's handy to keep such ports around as a source of ideas
> for other ports.
> 
> However, I think the chances of anybody trying to build GCC starting
> with hc on that target are small enough that I don't think we need to
> worry about it.

It seems like consensus is to drop just FUNCTION_CONVERSION_BUG.  I'll
send a patch for that after my current batch is approved.

zw