[PATCH] Obsolete old platforms

Joel Sherrill joel.sherrill@oarcorp.com
Fri Sep 30 14:46:00 GMT 2016



On September 30, 2016 2:40:29 AM CDT, Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com> wrote:
>
>> On 30 Sep 2016, at 01:12, Vincent Rivière
><vincent.riviere@freesbee.fr> wrote:
>> 
>> On 27/09/2016 à 15:11, Tristan Gingold wrote:
>>> Patch to add many old (or even very old) platforms as obsolete.
>>> If you know that a target in the list is still alive, please
>comment.
>> ...
>>> + m68*-motorola-sysv* | m68*-hp-bsd* | m68*-*-aout* | \
>> ...
>>> + m68*-*-netbsdaout* | \
>> 
>> The unofficial m68k-atari-mint target is still alive and needs
>m68k-aout support. It is similar to m68k NetBSD a.out.
>
>The aout0_be_vec will still be kepts, as used by m68*-*-rtems

I can't swear it is actually used. The primary output is ELF and I assume that binary and secords are what people can additionally use to burn or download. What else might one need?


>> See binutils-gdb fork there (on -mint branches):
>> https://github.com/vinriviere/m68k-atari-mint-binutils-gdb
>> 
>> It would be appreciated to keep m68k-aout support so the MiNT patches
>could still apply to new binutils versions.
>
>Do they have a plan to submit it upstream ?

That would certainly make it more official and easier to avoid get caught in the deprecation net again.

--joel



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