Deprecate 32-bits HP-PA for GCC 4.8?

[Joel Sherrill]

On 05/07/2012 12:45 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> GCC is well into stage 1 for GCC 4.8, but I haven't seen any proposals
>> for targets to be deprecated.
>     All 32-bit Sun Microsystems sun4m systems such as the old
> SPARCstation 20 and 10 units.  These are still running out there
> however Solaris 9 was the last OS to support them. All support for
> Solaris 9 has dropped into "legacy" mode from Oracle. I think all
> support for sun4d and sun4c was dropped a long time ago in the GCC
> project and if not, then they should be. The 64-bit systems such
> as Sun Ultra 1 upwards still have life in them and they will run
> either 32-bit Solaris 8 and 9 or 64-bit Solaris 8 and 9. Some
> people have run Solaris 10 also which is purely a 64-bit kernel.
>
> In any case, those are just my thoughts on old legacy Sun gear.
I won't argue about 32-bit Solaris or Sun hardware except
to ask about sparc-linux wanting it.

But the space community uses the 32-bit SPARC ERC32
and LEON series of CPUs. These are not running Solaris
and so dropping SPARC v7/v8 support would be bad.
I know sparc-rtems and sparc-elf have users and
test results get reported.

Dropping old sparc-solaris support won't let the sparc
backend shrink like the HPPA one.
> Dennis
>
>
>


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