On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > I work for a company that makes significant use of gcc to target vax. > > The people involved are users, not developers, of gcc. Does any part > > of the deprecation requirements take into account user base, or just > > developer base? > > Neither, actually. It's tester base that counts the most.
Indeed, testing is needed to provide evidence that a target works, but in practice some developer work is needed to fix problems that show up in testing (for example, target-specific problems exposed by the df work) and without such work target architectures are unlikely to remain working well between major releases. However, I only looked to see if there was any development on a platform if I saw there had been no testing at all (posted to gcc-testresults) since the start of 2007. -- Joseph S. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
