RFA: Use .opt files for the i860 port

[Zack Weinberg]

Richard Sandiford <rsandifo@redhat.com> writes:

> Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com> writes:
>> Richard Sandiford <rsandifo@redhat.com> writes:
>>> Strange one this.  All the i860 options control a target macro called
>>> TARGET_XP, but nothing ever checks it!  I didn't know whether to keep
>>> them anyway or not.
>>>
>>> Tested by building i860-stardent-sysv4 as far as it'll go (it ICEs
>>> building crtstuff for unrelated reasons).  I needed the attached i860.c
>>> patch in order to get a clean build of cc1 since i860.c is still passing
>>> three arguments to build_int_cst.
>>
>> Hmm.  i860 has already been dropped once.  The hardware is long out of
>> production.  I don't see why we're keeping it around, especially if it
>> doesn't build.
>
> It looks like Jason's OK with removing it, but from Mark's reply
> to Kazu's gcc@ message, it sounds like we'll be keeping it around
> in CVS for a while after the 4.0 release.  Is the patch OK to
> install in the meantime?

Sure.

zw