Noah Misch <n...@leadboat.com> writes: > If the next thing is a patch removing half of the fallback atomics, that is a > solid reason to remove hppa.
Agreed, though I don't think we have a clear proposal as to what else to remove. > The code removed in the last proposed patch was > not that and was code that never changes, hence my reaction. Mmm ... I'd agree that the relevant stanzas of s_lock.h/.c haven't changed in a long time, but port/atomics/ is of considerably newer vintage and is still receiving a fair amount of churn. Moreover, much of what I proposed to remove from there is HPPA-only code with exactly no parallel in other arches (specifically, the bits in atomics/fallback.h). So I don't feel comfortable that it will continue to work without benefit of testing. We're taking a risk just hoping that it will continue to work in the back branches until they hit EOL. Expecting that it'll continue to work going forward, sans testing, seems like the height of folly. regards, tom lane