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Re: Remove obsolete Solaris 8 support

From: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at adacore dot com>
To: Rainer Orth <ro at cebitec dot uni-bielefeld dot de>
Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, libstdc++ at gcc dot gnu dot org, java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:53:54 +0100
Subject: Re: Remove obsolete Solaris 8 support
References: <yddwr6piuiv.fsf@manam.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> <201203122319.42906.ebotcazou@adacore.com> <yddipi6c4f1.fsf@manam.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>

> If we are, we'll never learn if this code is needed on anything beyond
> Solaris 8 and keep this cruft around basically forever.

So what?  This file is a big kludge and there is no value whatsoever in it 
being elegant or particularly readable or even efficient.

> I'll at least try a bootstrap with the nframes = 2 code ripped out with
> Solaris 9 FCS libc and libthread (and of course the whole rest: latest
> Solaris 9, 10 and 11) and see if anything breaks.

To make things clear upfront: I'll oppose any change that removes something.

-- 
Eric Botcazou

References:
- Remove obsolete Solaris 8 support
  - From: Rainer Orth
- Re: Remove obsolete Solaris 8 support
  - From: Eric Botcazou
- Re: Remove obsolete Solaris 8 support
  - From: Rainer Orth

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