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Re: Remove CR16C support?
On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 08:23:49AM -0600, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> I have no objection but have wondered why some other targets are still
> around.
> The TI C3x/C4x is high on that list since it never had GCC support merged
> and is
> long dead AFAIK. RTEMS had a port long ago based on an unmerged GCC that
> was barely usable. We removed it at least 15 years ago.
Yes, those targets are non-ELF and along with tic54x have bytes not
equal to octets. That makes them odd targets, liable to more bit rot
than most.
> The mcore is another one I wonder about being dead. The Wikipedia page is
> minimal and the Motorola -> Freescale -> NXP leaves only one document that
> I could find on the web and it's 20 years old with the company name just
> updated.
> Is this dead also?
If we mark it as obsolete I guess we might find out. :-)
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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM