[PATCH] Remove NaCl target support

Alan Modra amodra@gmail.com
Mon Jun 29 04:02:22 GMT 2020


On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 08:01:54PM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 5:50 PM Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 02:17:38PM -0700, H.J. Lu via Binutils wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 10:08:45PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > > > Nobody has used those targets in a long time.  They can be removed any time.
> > >
> > > Here is a patch to remove NaCl target support from bfd, binutils, gas and
> > > ld.
> > >
> > > OK for master branch?
> >
> > You don't want to mark the target support as obsolete for one release?
> > I think you probably should do that, delaying this patch until after
> > 2.35 branches in a week or so.
> >
> 
> I don't think anyone will miss these targets.

I don't question that, just the hurry to remove them.  Is there
something so fundamentally wrong with the current nacl support that
potential users should be more than just warned off them with a
message saying the target is obsolete?  Current testsuite results
seem to say the x86_64-nacl target is in good shape.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM


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