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Re: PATCH: remove libiberty/ternary.c et al
- From: Ben Elliston <bje at au1 dot ibm dot com>
- To: DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, binutils at sourceware dot org, ian at airs dot com, dberlin at dberlin dot org
- Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:00:45 +1000
- Subject: Re: PATCH: remove libiberty/ternary.c et al
- References: <1185324590.19345.28.camel@localhost> <200707250140.l6P1eVjQ002759@greed.delorie.com>
On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 21:40 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> It's been sitting there for six years, and I'm not a fan of making new
> libiberty versions not backward compatible. Are there any other
> reasons to remove it besides "it's there" ?
Only the burden of maintaining it.
There is only a backward compatibility problem if there is a client of
these routines and we have no reason to believe there is.
Ben