Target deprecation, round three

[Tolga Dalman]

On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:51:17 -0500 David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com> wrote:

> >>>>> Steven Bosscher writes:
> 
> Steven> Well that's quite a choice, eh?  Making it easier to maintain a _single_
> Steven> HOST_EBCDIC port of relatively minor importance (no offense), at the
> Steven> cost of making it harder to maintain C99 support for literaly _all_
> Steven> other ports...
> 
> 	Maybe you should remind yourself of GCC's Mission Statement:
> 
> GCC development is a part of the GNU Project, aiming to improve the
> compiler used in the GNU system including the GNU/Linux variant. The GCC
> development effort uses an open development environment and supports many
> other platforms in order to foster a world-class optimizing compiler, to
> attract a larger team of developers, to ensure that GCC and the GNU system
> work on multiple architectures and diverse environments, and to more
> thoroughly test and extend the features of GCC.
> 
> 
> We have motivation to support non-GNU, non-Unix, non-ASCII platforms.  If
> we decide that an existing, working, useful target is expendible, where
> does it end?
> 

i totally agree to you, but is that all the effort worth? the consequence would
be (probably) worse code, more bugs to care about and for sure more work.

just my 2 cents.
Tolga Dalman.