> Eric, David Brenner noticed that sparc little-endian support is > a candidate for deprecation or deletion. I support the latter, > we have no real OS targets supporting it and sparclet support > was removed in 2003 (!!!). > These are actually two separate issues. Sparclet was an embedded design bi-endian design from the late 90s. It was dropped as a target years ago, but the -msparclet option, Sparclet instructions in sparc.md and the sparclet.md files remained. Sparc little endian support may have been added to support Windows NT. http://ftp.lanet.lv/ftp/sun-info/sunflash/1993/Jul/55.11-Sun-Intergraph:-SPARC-and-Windows-NT
Regards, David Bremner