[PATCH] Remove NaCl target support

[Andrew Pinski]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2020, 5:07 AM H.J. Lu via Binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>
wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 9:02 PM Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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 message saying the target is obsolete?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.
> >
>
> I wanted to remove NaCl support when CET support was added a few
> years ago since there is no way to support any new hardware features
> in NaCl.  Since no one is using it, we shouldn't keep it any longer.
>


Did NaCl ever got removed from Binutils? It is now in the process of being
removed from llvm(https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/133661), it
would be a good time to do it for binutils and the rest of the gnu
toolchain too



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