GCC 4.3 target deprecation proposals

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Paolo Bonzini wrote:

> > I work for a company that makes significant use of gcc to target vax.
> > The people involved are users, not developers, of gcc.  Does any part
> > of the deprecation requirements take into account user base, or just
> > developer base?
> 
> Neither, actually.  It's tester base that counts the most.

Indeed, testing is needed to provide evidence that a target works, but in 
practice some developer work is needed to fix problems that show up in 
testing (for example, target-specific problems exposed by the df work) and 
without such work target architectures are unlikely to remain working well 
between major releases.  However, I only looked to see if there was any 
development on a platform if I saw there had been no testing at all 
(posted to gcc-testresults) since the start of 2007.

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Joseph S. Myers
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