[PATCH] Obsolete support for Solaris < 10

Jan Beulich jbeulich@suse.com
Thu Nov 27 09:16:14 GMT 2025


On 27.11.2025 10:04, Rainer Orth wrote:
> Support for Solaris 8 and 9 has long been removed from GCC:
> 
> * Solaris 8 support in GCC 4.8 (2013)
> 
> * Solaris 9 support in GCC 5 (2015)
> 
> so it's time to obsolete anything before Solaris 10 in binutils, too.

But according to the actual code change and ...

> Both haven't even built since binutils 2.41.

... (aiui) this related statement, they were already marked obsolete. What
instead you do is un-obsolete Solaris 2.10 and 2.11. That's fine with me,
but needs describing accordingly (including to make the subject unambiguous).

Jan


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