Hi Richard!
On 6/13/19 1:13 PM, Richard Biener wrote:
>
> ia64 has no maintainer anymore so the following deprecates it
> with the goal of eliminating the port for GCC 11 if no maintainer
> steps up.
>
> OK?
The HelenOS microkernel project would be affected by this as we are
actively developing and maintaining our ia64 port using GCC. Currently
we are using GCC 8.2 but will eventually want to upgrade to newer
versions of GCC, preferably on all our architectures at once and to the
same GCC version.
We build with -O3 and in the past we reported and helped to test fixes
for the following GCC ia64-related bugs:
- https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53975
- https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=0
We are ready to submit and help with more reports like these, it's just
currently we are not bugged by any ia64-related GCC issues.
It would be a tremendous loss if GCC dropped support for ia64 in the
future. Hopefully someone with the right combination of skills will
volunteer.
Jakub
>
> Thanks,
> Richard.
>
> 2019-06-13 Richard Biener
>
> * config.gcc: Mark ia64*-*-* targets as deprecated/obsolete.
>
> Index: gcc/config.gcc
> ===
> --- gcc/config.gcc(revision 272239)
> +++ gcc/config.gcc(working copy)
> @@ -249,6 +249,7 @@ md_file=
> case ${target} in
>spu*-*-* \
>| tile*-*-*\
> + | ia64*-*-*\
> )
> if test "x$enable_obsolete" != xyes; then
>echo "*** Configuration ${target} is obsolete." >&2
>
