[RFC, PATCH] ARM related deprecations

John Tytgat John.Tytgat@aaug.net
Sat Dec 10 01:06:00 GMT 2011


In message <4EE2285B.3060305@arm.com>
          Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com> wrote:

> I think we've reached the point where the following target
> configurations should be End-of-Life'd.  As such, I'd like to mark them
> as deprecated in gcc-4.7, prior to removal after the branch.
> 
> I'd also like to remove at that time support for some now obsolete
> co-processor units, namely the FPA and Maverick.

Would it really be necessary to remove the FPA support ? Does it hinder
any future ARM support in gcc ?

The reason for thse questions is that for many years our RISC OS gcc port
(currently following the gcc developments on the 4.6 branch and trunk)
can make use of hard-float FPA output for one of its multilib flavours (see
http://gccsdk.riscos.info/) and I would like to keep on supporting this
in gcc 4.8.

John.
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John Tytgat, in his comfy chair at home                                 BASS
John.Tytgat@aaug.net                             ARM powered, RISC OS driven



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