[PATCH] Remove dead code.

Richard Biener richard.guenther@gmail.com
Fri Nov 12 19:14:58 GMT 2021


On November 12, 2021 3:41:41 PM GMT+01:00, "H.J. Lu via Gcc-patches" <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
>On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 6:27 AM Martin Liška <mliska@suse.cz> wrote:
>>
>> On 11/8/21 15:19, Jeff Law wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > On 11/8/2021 2:59 AM, Jakub Jelinek via Gcc-patches wrote:
>> >> On Mon, Nov 08, 2021 at 09:45:39AM +0100, Martin Liška wrote:
>> >>> This fixes issue reported in the PR.
>> >>>
>> >>> Ready to be installed?
>> >> I'm not sure.  liboffloadmic is copied from upstream, so the right
>> >> thing if we want to do anything at all (if we don't remove it, nothing
>> >> bad happens, the condition is never true anyway, whether removed away
>> >> in the source or removed by the compiler) would be to let Intel fix it in
>> >> their source and update from that.
>> >> But I have no idea where it even lives upstream.
>> > I thought MIC as an architecture was dead, so it could well be the case that there isn't a viable upstream anymore for that code.
>> >
>> > jeff
>>
>> @H.J. ?
>>
>
>We'd like to deprecate MIC offload in GCC 12.  We will remove all traces of
>MIC offload in GCC 13.

Can you document that in gcc-12/changes.html in the caveats section please?

Thanks, 
Richard. 

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