[patch-rfc] N2179: Exception Propagation in C++

[Mark Mitchell]

Andrew Pinski wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Paolo Carlini <paolo.carlini@oracle.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>> I think it is the time to declare that gcc 4.4 only supports
>>> i486 and above.
>> I see your point and I agree, and that could be done in various ways, for instance just changing the *default* to i486.
> 
> I think GNU/Linux support only should be dropped and not GCC support in general.

Why would we drop i386, even for GNU/Linux?  I have no objection to 
changing the default CPU, or saying that some features are unavailable 
on i386, but I can't see a good reason to drop the CPU altogether.

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