Re: Please don't deprecate i386 for GCC 4.8

2012-12-15 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/15/2012 07:02 PM, Joel Sherrill wrote: I did test i386-rtems in the past few months but it had a build breakage and I filed a PR. That issue was resolved but at that point about 1/4 of the rtems targets failed to compile. You likely are referring to http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.c

Re: Please don't deprecate i386 for GCC 4.8

2012-12-15 Thread Joel Sherrill
I am on travel and answering from my phone so don't remember all the exact dates and PRs. I did test i386-rtems in the past few months but it had a build breakage and I filed a PR. That issue was resolved but at that point about 1/4 of the rtems targets failed to compile. I filed PRs but didn't

Re: Please don't deprecate i386 for GCC 4.8

2012-12-15 Thread Robert Dewar
On 12/15/2012 12:32 PM, Cynthia Rempel wrote: Hi, Thanks for the fast response! So to keep an architecture supported by GCC, we would need to: Three or more times a year preferably either during OR after "stage3" 1. use the SVN version of gcc, 2. patch with an RTEMS patch, 3. use ./contrib/te

RE: Please don't deprecate i386 for GCC 4.8

2012-12-15 Thread Cynthia Rempel
Hi, Thanks for the fast response! So to keep an architecture supported by GCC, we would need to: Three or more times a year preferably either during OR after "stage3" 1. use the SVN version of gcc, 2. patch with an RTEMS patch, 3. use ./contrib/test_summary and pipe the output to a shell. 4.

Re: Please don't deprecate i386 for GCC 4.8

2012-12-15 Thread Robert Dewar
On 12/15/2012 12:42 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: If you want a port to be live show that it is live by posting regular testresults to gcc-testresults. Not all of this world is Linux nor backed by large teams at companies :) We simply do not have the resources do to this. But that's the poi

Re: Please don't deprecate i386 for GCC 4.8

2012-12-15 Thread Richard Biener
On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 6:42 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 12/14/2012 10:09 PM, Richard Biener wrote: >> >> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 9:16 PM, Robert Dewar wrote: >>> >>> On 12/14/2012 3:13 PM, Cynthia Rempel wrote: Hi, RTEMS still supports the i386, and there are many i38

Re: Please don't deprecate i386 for GCC 4.8

2012-12-14 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/14/2012 10:09 PM, Richard Biener wrote: On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 9:16 PM, Robert Dewar wrote: On 12/14/2012 3:13 PM, Cynthia Rempel wrote: Hi, RTEMS still supports the i386, and there are many i386 machines still in use. Deprecating the i386 will negatively impact RTEMS ability to supp

Re: Please don't deprecate i386 for GCC 4.8

2012-12-14 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/14/2012 09:16 PM, Robert Dewar wrote: On 12/14/2012 3:13 PM, Cynthia Rempel wrote: Hi, RTEMS still supports the i386, and there are many i386 machines still in use. Deprecating the i386 will negatively impact RTEMS ability to support the i386. As Steven Bosscher said, the "benefits" are

Re: Please don't deprecate i386 for GCC 4.8

2012-12-14 Thread Richard Biener
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 9:16 PM, Robert Dewar wrote: > On 12/14/2012 3:13 PM, Cynthia Rempel wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> RTEMS still supports the i386, and there are many i386 machines still >> in use. Deprecating the i386 will negatively impact RTEMS ability to >> support the i386. As Steven Bossche

Re: Please don't deprecate i386 for GCC 4.8

2012-12-14 Thread Robert Dewar
Having read this whole thread, Ivote for deprecating the 386. People using this ancient architecture can perfectly well use older versions of gcc that have this support.

Re: Please don't deprecate i386 for GCC 4.8

2012-12-14 Thread Robert Dewar
On 12/14/2012 3:13 PM, Cynthia Rempel wrote: Hi, RTEMS still supports the i386, and there are many i386 machines still in use. Deprecating the i386 will negatively impact RTEMS ability to support the i386. As Steven Bosscher said, the "benefits" are small, and the impact would be serious for R