Re: Deprecate i386 for GCC 4.8?

[Erik Trulsson <Erik dot Trulsson dot 1013 at student dot uu dot se>]

Quoting Ralf Corsepius <ralf.corsepius@googlemail.com>:

> On 12/12/2012 08:54 PM, Robert Dewar 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've never heard about them before, nor do I know how far spread  
> their products are, however these folks seem to be producing i386-SoCs
> http://www.dmp.com.tw/
> esp. this one
> http://www.dmp.com.tw/tech/vortex86sx/

I am not 100% sure, but from looking at the documents on that page I
think it is based on the i486 rather than on the i386.

My impression (although I am not quite up to date with the current
situation) is that many (most?) x86 CPUs used in smaller embedded
systems are i48&/i586 hybrids, i.e. they are i486-compatible and
also supports some (but not all) features of the i586.