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Re: Testing glibc 2.24 on remaining machines.


On 22 Jul 2016 09:37, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On 07/21/2016 10:06 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> > Then should we follow option (1) not further support pre-v9 sparc?
> > If so, much the same approach should be followed as for i386: make configure
> > give an error when the compiler is configured for pre-v9; merge sysdeps
> > directories so there are no longer separate sparcv8 and sparcv9
> > subdirectories but sparc/sparc32 assumes v9; remove obsolete preprocessor
> > conditionals such as in kernel-features.h.
> 
> Possibly we should retain a place for Leon3, which is mostly v8 but adds the 
> casa instruction and the ability to use #ASI_USER_DATA from userspace.

Gentoo def sees leon users.  off the top of my head, that's the only v8
we still really see.
-mike

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