"Joseph S. Myers" <[email protected]> writes:
> On Mon, 21 Mar 2011, Rainer Orth wrote:
>
>> Therefore I'll soon commit this patch to obsolete Solaris 8 support in
>> 4.7. It will be removed in 4.8 then.
>
> When obsoleting targets or other features, please update the release notes
> (gcc-4.7/changes.html).
Like this? Or should I link to the UI threads removal patch, too?
Rainer
2011-03-21 Rainer Orth <[email protected]>
* htdocs/gcc-4.7/changes.html (Caveats): Document Solaris 8
obsoletion, Solaris threads removal.
Index: htdocs/gcc-4.7/changes.html
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RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/gcc-4.7/changes.html,v
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--- htdocs/gcc-4.7/changes.html 14 Mar 2011 13:52:00 -0000 1.1
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@@ -14,8 +14,27 @@
<h2>Caveats</h2>
<ul>
- <li>...</li>
- </ul>
+ <li><p>Support for a number of older systems and recently
+ unmaintained or untested target ports of GCC has been declared
+ obsolete in GCC 4.7. Unless there is activity to revive them, the
+ next release of GCC will have their sources permanently
+ <strong>removed</strong>.</p>
+
+ <p id="obsoleted">The following ports for individual systems on
+ particular architectures have been obsoleted:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>Solaris 8 (*-*-solaris2.8). Details can be found in the
+ <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-03/msg01263.html";>
+ announcement</a>.</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ </li>
+
+ <li>Support has been removed for Unix International threads on Solaris
+ 2, so the <code>--enable-threads=solaris</code> configure option and
+ the <code>-threads</code> compiler option don't work any longer.</li>
+ </ul>
<h2>General Optimizer Improvements</h2>
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Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University
