[wwwdocs] Cleanup of "Open projects" 1/n

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Steven Bosscher wrote:
> Let's start with removing some obviously dead stuff:
> - Bounded pointer checking "gcc.gnu.org/projects/bp/".  The
>  line "Project Status (updated 2000-08-11)" should tell you
>  enough.  My understanding is this work has been subsumed
>  by mudflap, but even if it is not, this is Really Old Stuff
>  that needs to go away.
> - Value range propagation pass "which isn't yet in GCC" and
>  never will be.  There is a newer vrp.c on the hammer branch
>  and Diefo wants a VRP pass for tree-ssa.
> - Automaton based pipeline hazard recognizer.  This is not
>  work in progress, it's finished.

Okay.  And thanks for attacking this mess!

On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> However, I think the web page for it should be marked with a prominent
> "this project is dead" notice rather than removed and causing 404s for
> anyone with external links or bookmarks to it.

For added bonus points, you could establish a new page projects/dead.html
and redirect (via htdocs/.htaccess which is also in CVS) to bp/ pages to
that new page.  This will give any linkers a stronger hint, namely a
redirection code, and I suspect we will need to resuse this page in the
future.

Gerald