Deprecate i386 for GCC 4.8?

Steven Bosscher stevenb.gcc@gmail.com
Wed Dec 12 18:02:00 GMT 2012


Hello,

Linux support for i386 has been removed. Should we do the same for GCC?
The "oldest" ix86 variant that'd be supported would be i486.

The benefit would be a few good cleanups:

* PROCESSOR_I386 / TARGET_386 can be removed

* X86_TUNE_DOUBLE_WITH_ADD can be removed (always true)
* X86_ARCH_CMPXCHG/X86_ARCH_XADD/X86_ARCH_BSWAP can be removed.

* The only ix86 variant without lock-free atomic int support goes
away, which probably allows for a few more cleanups in some of the
libraries (?).

Not much, but something is more than nothing :-)

Ciao!
Steven



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