m68k - Dropping the Motorola syntax

[William C. Cox]

Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> Of course I meant to remove the least used one, which is...
> err... mumble mumble... the MIT syntax :-)

Least used by whom?  Wind River is still selling VxWorks kernels
written in MIT format source code, with sources to some customers.
Please don't invalidate that code by removing support for it!
This proposal needs wider discussion...

The MIT syntax is the one that GNU tools originally supported.
I thought by now gas supports both syntaxes, but are both still
being maintained?  Another question is: which syntax do our
dis-assemblers (in gdb and binutils) emit?  Obviously, our
toolchain should be self-consistent.  It's silly for our
compiler to only support Motorola syntax while gdb emits
(only or by default) MIT syntax or vice versa.
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