GCC 4.3 target deprecation proposals

[Ben Elliston]

On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 15:06 +0100, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote:

> I agree that weighing the user base doesn't make any practical sense.
> But I can't understand the reason for removing something that works
> fine because it may rot in the future.

Every port, working or not, imposes a certain amount of maintenance
overhead.  It also adds inertia, because a small change that affects
every backend might discourage someone from making that change, even if
it's the right thing to do.

Ben