Target deprecation, round three

[Zack Weinberg]

Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:

> I think that i370 is clearly useful to people and should be supported.
>
> The question is how to do that.  Ideally, I agree with Zack that it
> should be merged with the s390 backend; the architectures are similar
> enough that they should be one backend.
>
> However, I don't think we can deprecate i370 to try to force that issue;
> we have to hope that someone will actually go it.  And if they did do
> it, I think we'd still have the EBCDIC issue -- that's part of the OS.
>
> How exactly does the EBCDIC stuff interact with the multi-charset stuff?

See my other message, the one David is quoting.

I've said all I have to say on the subject.  Let the SC make a
decision, and I'll abide by it.

zw