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Re: FYI: GCC dropped score support
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: Stan Shebs <stanshebs at earthlink dot net>
- Cc: gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 17:18:05 -0700
- Subject: Re: FYI: GCC dropped score support
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> It seems pretty dead, the company's pages are 404, and the only
> product I can find that used it was the Mattel HyperScan, introduced in
> 2006 and discontinued in 2008 - apparently it made PC World's "10 Worst
> Videogames of All Time" list.
>
> Even if the code isn't being used, I think it still costs us, in the
> sense that we have to think about whether it needs changing, it has
> to be patchedwhen there are global changes, and so forth. So I
> think we should whack it soon as decently possible. (Of course, the
> code will actually live on forever, in old releases and repos. :-) )
Seen under this light, it does make sense!
--
Joel