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Re: GCC 4.3 target deprecation proposals
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini at gnu dot org>
- Cc: NightStrike <nightstrike at gmail dot com>, John David Anglin <dave at hiauly1 dot hia dot nrc dot ca>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, liqin at sunnorth dot com dot cn, dave dot anglin at nrc dot ca, matt at 3am-software dot com, joern dot rennecke at arc dot com, m dot hayes at elec dot canterbury dot ac dot nz, nickc at redhat dot com, aldyh at redhat dot com, nathan at codesourcery dot com, ni1d at arrl dot net, geoffk at geoffk dot org, paul dot woegerer at nsc dot com
- Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:22:51 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: Re: GCC 4.3 target deprecation proposals
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0801211859440.11050@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> <200801212005.m0LK55vR020709@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca> <b609cb3b0801220106n52b3195k74c833c9802791f0@mail.gmail.com> <4795BC1F.2050303@gnu.org>
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > I work for a company that makes significant use of gcc to target vax.
> > The people involved are users, not developers, of gcc. Does any part
> > of the deprecation requirements take into account user base, or just
> > developer base?
>
> Neither, actually. It's tester base that counts the most.
Indeed, testing is needed to provide evidence that a target works, but in
practice some developer work is needed to fix problems that show up in
testing (for example, target-specific problems exposed by the df work) and
without such work target architectures are unlikely to remain working well
between major releases. However, I only looked to see if there was any
development on a platform if I saw there had been no testing at all
(posted to gcc-testresults) since the start of 2007.
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com