On Thu, 4 Feb 2021 at 01:49, Richard Henderson <richard.hender...@linaro.org> wrote: > > Almost 7 years ago I detailed 5 major problems in tci[1], of > which three still remain: > > * Unaligned accesses to the bytecode stream, which means > that we immediately SIGBUS on any host requiring alignment. > * Non-portable calls to helper functions. > * Full of useless ifdefs and TODOs. > > To my mind, this means the code is unmaintained, despite what it > says in MAINTAINERS. Thus tci *should* be simply removed. > However, every time removal is suggested, someone comes out of the > woodwork and says we should keep it, because it's useful for $FOO.
Not listed, but also a problem: * it's a configure-time choice, not a runtime choice (Personally I'm on the "we should just remove it" side.) thanks -- PMM
