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Re: Beyond GCC 3.0: Summing Up
- To: Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>
- Subject: Re: Beyond GCC 3.0: Summing Up
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 08:37:47 +0100 (BST)
- cc: "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Stan Shebs wrote:
> GDB already has a two-stage process for this, where the first stage
> is to research the status of the target, and if it appears moribund,
> declare its support obsolete, comment out all the code, and make a
> release with the obsolete code still present. Then if nobody speaks
> to save it, delete it from the next release. So far none of the
> obsoleted targets has had to be unexpectedly resurrected.
Given the use of CVS, what is the advantage of this process over simply
announcing on gcc-announce the targets it is proposed to remove and seeing
if anyone objects, as in
<URL:http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-announce/2000/msg00002.html>?
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Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk