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Re: Deprecating Itanium1 for GCC 4.4
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 4:10 AM, Steven Bosscher <stevenb.gcc@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
>> Steven Bosscher <stevenb.gcc@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> ? ? ?case OPT_mfixed_range_:
>>> @@ -5245,6 +5247,13 @@ ia64_handle_option (size_t code, const char *arg,
>>> ? ? ? ? if (!strcmp (arg, processor_alias_table[i].name))
>>> ? ? ? ? ? {
>>> ? ? ? ? ? ? ia64_tune = processor_alias_table[i].processor;
>>> + ? ? ? ? ? if (ia64_tune == PROCESSOR_ITANIUM
>>> + ? ? ? ? ? ? ? && ! warned_merced_deprecated)
>>> + ? ? ? ? ? ? {
>>> + ? ? ? ? ? ? ? inform ("value %<%s%> for -mtune= switch is deprecated", arg);
>>> + ? ? ? ? ? ? ? inform ("GCC 4.4 is the last release with Itanium1 support");
>>
>> "... with Itanium1 tuning support"?
>>
>> I assume it will be still possible to generate executables that work
>> there, just not tuned. iirc there are new instructions in I2, but I
>> assume you don't plan to drop the code to not generate those, just the
>> scheduling descriptions.
>
> I plan to drop both.
>
It would be hard to find a working Itanium 1 machine. Mine died a few years
ago.
--
H.J.