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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