> On Dec 15, 2015, at 5:22 PM, David Wohlferd <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 12/14/2015 1:53 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:
>> > This just seems like another argument for deprecating basic asm and
>> > pushing people to extended.
>> Yes. I am not arguing against deprecation. We should do that.
>
> You know, there are several people who seem to generally support this
> direction. Not enough to call it a consensus, but perhaps the beginning of
> one:
>
> - Andrew Haley
> - David Wohlferd
> - Richard Henderson
> - Segher Boessenkool
> - Bernd Schmidt
>
> Anyone else want to add their name here?
No, but I want to speak in opposition.
"Deprecate" means two things: warn now, remove later. For reasons stated by
others, I object to "remove later". So "warn now, remove never" I would
support, but not "deprecate".
paul
