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Re: Deprecate i386 for GCC 4.8?

On 12/13/2012 13:09, Steven Bosscher wrote:
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 12:38 PM, David Brown wrote: 
Dropping bsd as a target architecture just because the BSD distributions
don't use it is a bit like dropping support for targeting windows just
because Microsoft didn't use gcc to compile Windows 8.


You're confused. Dropping something as a target is not the same as
dropping it from the list of primary platforms.

See http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.8/criteria.html


Which clause are you invoking to remove it from the primary tier list?
Richard claimed "they are not at all happy with GPLv3". That's not a reason listed on your reference. He also claimed they "not using still maintained compilers" which is also clearly false.

Maybe FreeBSD violates the "Primary platforms are popular systems" clause (of course "popular" is not quantified so no way to defend accusations of being not popular enough). GCC is certainly "frequently used" on FreeBSD so that's not in violation.

John

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