Target deprecation, round three

[Steven Bosscher]

Op di 25-02-2003, om 00:12 schreef David Edelsohn:
> >>>>> Daniel Jacobowitz writes:
> 
> > I'm concerned that we're keeping support for the i370 based on some
> > work David says Red Hat has done on the port, which is not in the tree. 
> > I seem to recall messages to the effect of "the i370 port in FSF GCC
> > does not work, but there's this code in Red Hat somewhere that does";
> > my apologies if I'm misinterpreting someone.
> 
> 	The Red Hat work apparently was based on the s390 port, not the
> i370 port, but there are people who use and maintain the i370 port.
> 
> 	As I mentioned in my previous reply, Dave Pitts would try to
> maintain the i370 port if we were not making the process so difficult.

Well that's quite a choice, eh?  Making it easier to maintain a _single_
HOST_EBCDIC port of relatively minor importance (no offense), at the
cost of making it harder to maintain C99 support for literaly _all_
other ports...

Greetz
Steven