On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 11:44:31AM -0400, Greg Stark wrote: > Generally I think supporting older systems that do funny things is > helpful in avoiding problems that either 1) Can happen on newer > systems but rarely 2) Can happen on other systems that people are > using but we don't know about and aren't testing and 3) Can happen on > future systems or future compilers and we might not even find out > about.
Agreed. I think that things can be usually helpful. Now, I am not really convinced that there is a strong need in running a VAX if you are worrying about timing issues so this is a matter of balance. You could get down to the same level of coverage with something as cheap as a Raspberry PI or such. There are also configure switches that emulate rather non-common behaviors, like --disable-spinlocks or --disable-atomics that I'd rather never see gone. -- Michael
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