Target deprecation list

[Mark Mitchell]

A month ago, I posted a list of targets proposed for deprecation:

  http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-announce/2003/msg00001.html

I've received some replies from people who wanted to keep some of the
targets on that list.  I asked the folks that replied whether they
were using recent versions of GCC on their target; if they weren't, I
asked if they planned to do so.  (Some people just want to keep using
GCC 2.7.3, and they somehow thought we were going to take it away from
them.)

Here are the ones we should keep, based on those discussions:

  arc-*-*

  hppa*-*-mpeix*

  i?86-ncr-*
  i?86-sequent-*
  i?86-moss-*
  i?86-*-freebsd2*
  i?86-*-netbsd*aout*
  i?86-*-linux*aout*
  i?86-*-moss*
  i?86-*-sysv3*
  i?86-*-interix # not interix3

  i960-*-*

  m68000-hp-hpux*
  m68k-hp-hpux*

  sparclite-*-coff*

  vax-*-bsd*        
  vax-*-netbsd*aout*
  vax-*-vms*
  vax-*-sysv*

That means we can go ahead and lose both the m88k and ROMP targets
completely, even on the 3.3 branch, if someone is motivated to make
the changes.

The other targets that were on the original list, but not on this
list, can go on the mainline -- but *not* on the 3.3 branch.

Patches that do nothing but remove obsoleted targets are pre-approved,
starting in 48 hours so that in case other maintainers and/or the SC
can remove my pre-approval, if they feel it's inappropriate.

--
Mark Mitchell
CodeSourcery, LLC
mark@codesourcery.com