Remaining host configuration fragments
Robert Lipe
robertlipe@usa.net
Wed Jan 16 14:23:00 GMT 2002
Zack Weinberg wrote:
> Some candidates for dropping:
[ Numbers added ]
> 1. Architectures which don't support ELF.
> 2. Architectures which were never updated to new varargs.
> 3. All configurations based on SVR3 or earlier.
> 4. All configurations based on 4.3BSD or earlier.
> 5. All configurations based on COFF.
#1 and #5 are somewhat related.
For #3, there are active SVR3 systems that support ELF. (Yes, I know it
sounds anachronistic.)
> It is not easy to enumerate these. For the first one, I have a list:
>
> 1750a c4x convex elxsi ns32k romp we32k
> a29k clipper dsp16xx i960 pdp11 vax
The embedded guys might still care about i960. Roaming through
ChangeLogs, it looks more active than most of that list.
I do applaud your goal of pruning dead code.
RJL
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