Re: Old platforms: bring out your dead

2021-01-11 Thread chase rayfield
> Sparc has a runtime relocation I've never understood but did manage to break > once, resulting in a long thread to fix: > > http://lists.landley.net/pipermail/aboriginal-landley.net/2011-December/001964.html > > Between that and the weird save half the stack register thing with function > calls o

Re: Old platforms: bring out your dead

2021-01-11 Thread chase rayfield
On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 3:09 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > I'm not sure I understand the reasoning for doing this. The SPARC architecture > isn't going to see any new hardware developments in the future after Oracle > let go of most of the SPARC developers. So it's not that we need to m