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Re: Should we remove remnants of UWIN support in gcc/config.* files?
- From: Joel Sherrill <joel dot sherrill at oarcorp dot com>
- To: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>,FX <fxcoudert at gmail dot com>
- Cc: GCC Development <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>,gcc-patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 17:31:39 -0400
- Subject: Re: Should we remove remnants of UWIN support in gcc/config.* files?
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On August 20, 2015 5:22:47 PM EDT, Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
>On Thu, 20 Aug 2015, FX wrote:
>
>> > Well, they aren't *targets*, but *host* and *build* systems.
>>
>> Yes, but do we maintain a list of support host or build systems, that
>
>> would be different from our list of supported targets?
>
>I don't think there's such a list. For any such system that's not a
>supported target to work in practice, it would need a reasonably modern
>
>C++ compiler, which probably rules out a lot of systems that have been
>obsoleted as targets.
Wouldn't a list be able to be compiled from major branch release announcements? There should be a deprecated and removed note in two release branch descriptions. Even if we screwed up and forgot to list it on both, if it likely to be in one of them.
--joel