Deprecate i386 for GCC 4.8?

Richard Earnshaw rearnsha@arm.com
Fri Dec 14 10:53:00 GMT 2012


On 13/12/12 11:24, Steven Bosscher wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 11:43 AM, John Marino wrote:
>> I don't speak for FreeBSD, but dropping them from Tier 1 support because
>> they don't use a GPLv3 *BASE* compiler is a bit vindictive.
>
> FreeBSD has dropped GCC for future releases so there's no reason for
> it to be a primary platform.

Sun/Oracle has never, to my knowledge used GCC as it's primary compiler. 
  Yet that's still a primary platform.

R.



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