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Re: Remaining host configuration fragments
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 11:05:17PM -0800, Mark Mitchell wrote:
>
> In some cases, we are still trying to support systems with GCC that
> the operating system vendors stopped supporting years ago. To me,
> this is not an optimal use of scarce resources.
>
> I don't have any good bright-line criteria for making that decision,
> though.
Some candidates for dropping:
Architectures which don't support ELF.
Architectures which were never updated to new varargs.
All configurations based on SVR3 or earlier.
All configurations based on 4.3BSD or earlier.
All configurations based on COFF.
It is not easy to enumerate these. For the first one, I have a list:
1750a c4x convex elxsi ns32k romp we32k
a29k clipper dsp16xx i960 pdp11 vax
(vax is actively maintained, so it could be an exception.)
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