On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Mike Stump <mikest...@comcast.net> wrote: > On Mar 12, 2012, at 10:44 AM, Rainer Orth wrote: >> Since even extended support for Solaris 8 ends by March 31st, this patch >> removes Solaris 8 support from mainline. > > One of the nice things about gcc is that gcc usually still works, long after > a vendor has abandoned a machine. I rather like that gcc will just work, > unlike vendor software, which often says, please buy a new machine. One > doesn't have to remove support in gcc for something, just because a vendor > doesn't support it. That said, truly crufty things, should go.
Personally, I'd be in favor of removing any target for which no test results have been posted for the last, say, 2 GCC release series. Otherwise there isn't any measure for the quality for such a target. There've been GCC release series where a complete port failed to build... Ciao! Steven
