Deprecating and removing old targets

[Joel Sherrill]

On 9/14/2016 10:18 AM, Jose E. Marchesi wrote:
>
>     > On 12/09/16 08:37, Tristan Gingold wrote:
>     > Hello,
>     >
>     > after a short discussion at the GNU cauldron 2016, I'd like to hear
>     > opinion about removing old targets in bfd.
>     > It is hard to know whether or not they are used, so if you are using an old target please speak up.
>
>     Just to be clear, in case anyone reading Tristan email does not know
>     this, any targets that we do decide to remove would first be added to
>     the obsolete targets list (in bfd/config.bfd), and only once a major
>     release has happened (probably 2.28 in this case), would we start
>     actually removing code.
>
> Does that mean I can remove the code for sparc*-*-rtemsaout and
> sparc-*-lynxos*?  They have been listed as obsolete in config.bfd for a
> long time.

AFAIK RTEMS has no active targets that are not ELF. Feel free to kill
sparc*-*-rtemsaout or any target like *-*-rtemscoff* or *-*-rtemsaout*.


> It would be nice if we could get rid of the sparc-coff (only used by
> lynxos AFAIK) an even the sparc-aout (old netBSD, sunos) stuff all at
> once.  Only ELF sparc targets would remain..
>

I can't speak for LynxOS but it is a good goal.


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