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Re: Obsolete powerpc*-*-*spe*
- From: David Edelsohn <dje dot gcc at gmail dot com>
- To: Segher Boessenkool <segher at kernel dot crashing dot org>
- Cc: GCC Development <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 08:45:18 -0500
- Subject: Re: Obsolete powerpc*-*-*spe*
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On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 10:07 PM, Segher Boessenkool
<segher@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I propose to mark powerpc*-*-*spe* as obsolete in GCC 7. This includes
> the spe.h installed header file, all the __builtin_spe* intrinsics, the
> -mfloat-gprs= command-line option, and the support for the SPE ABIs.
>
> No one has properly tested these targets in a long time (the latest
> testresults I could find are from July 2015, >1000 failures), and the
> SPE support makes a lot of code much more complex.
>
> Any objections to this obsoletion? GCC 7 will then be the last release
> with support for SPE (it will need --enable-obsolete to build these
> targets), and we will delete the SPE support during GCC 8 development.
LGTM.
Thanks, David