GCC 4.3 target deprecation proposals

[Matt Thomas]

On Jan 21, 2008, at 3:01 PM, Ben Elliston wrote:

>> I didn't propose it for removal because of a single patch
>> <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2008-01/msg00511.html> reported  
>> to have
>> been tested on vax-netbsdelf.  If the maintainers wish to propose
>> deprecation and no-one else wishes to come forward to maintain it,  
>> we can
>> certainly include it in the deprecations; otherwise, all vax  
>> targets other
>> than vax-netbsdelf and maybe vax-openbsd are likely to appear in  
>> the list
>> of individual targets to deprecate for lack of even a single patch  
>> tested
>> there.
>
> My understanding is that NetBSD port to the vax is very much alive and
> maintained.  Thus, I expect that those users (eg Matt Thomas) would  
> like
> to see the GCC port retained.

We would.  I have gcc working with gcc4.3 but gcc's use mpfr/gmp has  
made
native test impossible since neither work on vax/elf.  I don't have time
to make them work.