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Re: Deprecate i386 for GCC 4.8?

From: Janne Blomqvist <blomqvist dot janne at gmail dot com>
To: Robert Dewar <dewar at adacore dot com>
Cc: Steven Bosscher <stevenb dot gcc at gmail dot com>, GCC Mailing List <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Uros Bizjak <ubizjak at gmail dot com>
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 13:33:10 +0200
Subject: Re: Deprecate i386 for GCC 4.8?
References: <CABu31nNt-DtF3r9csE9vKcN=DgnKpaHgf3cNx8ugOCfxqd8n1g@mail.gmail.com> <50C8DD61.3010506@adacore.com> <CABu31nMhLRn+AeXDR+a+uvEBvdT9NBq6z3CemB8LPVp_bU4b+w@mail.gmail.com> <50C8E10F.2040309@adacore.com>

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com> wrote:
> On 12/12/2012 2:52 PM, Steven Bosscher wrote:
>
>> And as usual: If you use an almost 30 years old architecture, why
>> would you need the latest-and-greatest compiler technology?
>> Seriously...
>
>
> Well the embedded folk often end up with precisely this dichotomy :-)
> But if no sign of 386 embedded chips, then reasonable to deprecate
> I agree.

According to

http://web.archive.org/web/20061009060120/http://developer.intel.com/design/pcn/Processors/D0106013.pdf

Intel stopped producing embedded 386 chips in 2007.


-- 
Janne Blomqvist

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