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Re: More code removal, mips ecoff support
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- To: Eric Christopher <echristo at redhat dot com>
- Cc: <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 23:58:45 +0000 (GMT)
- Subject: Re: More code removal, mips ecoff support
On 6 Dec 2001, Eric Christopher wrote:
> I'm looking at current OSs that support ecoff on mips or any objections
> to removing the ecoff support from the backend. Anyone?
Just generic comments on such removal:
* Be sure to remove/update all documentation that is made obsolete by such
removal - for example, there are references to ECOFF in install.texi.
* If this means certain targets are no longer supported, actually remove
support for them (headers, config.gcc fragments, ...) so that they fail at
configure time.
* Enumerate the costs and benefits. What targets are affected, how long
have they been obsolete, how much does this simplify the compiler and make
it easier to maintain?
* Ideally the release notes for each release would list the targets for
which support has been removed, even if we're sure they're long obsolete,
in caveats.html, though we haven't really been tracking this information
properly to do this.
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Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk