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Re: Deprecate i386 for GCC 4.8?
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 8:39 PM, Robert Dewar wrote:
> On 12/12/2012 1:01 PM, Steven Bosscher wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Linux support for i386 has been removed. Should we do the same for GCC?
>> The "oldest" ix86 variant that'd be supported would be i486.
>
>
> Are there any embedded chips that still use the 386 instruction set?
Hard to be sure, but doubtful. A search with Google doesn't give
anything that suggests someone's selling 386-ISA embedded chips. I'd
also expect even the most low-end embedded chip would use the 486 ISA,
which is a small bug significant extension to 386.
And as usual: If you use an almost 30 years old architecture, why
would you need the latest-and-greatest compiler technology?
Seriously...
Ciao!
Steven