[PATCH] Obsolete support for Solaris < 10

[Rainer Orth]

Hi Jan,

> 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).

I think you misread the patch and the situation: On current trunk, no
Solaris version at all is obsoleted.

In the patches' obsoletion case it excludes *-*-solaris2.1[01]* (which
are still supported) by matching them first.  This needs to be done
since otherwise *-*-solaris2.[0-9]* in the next case would also match
*-*-solaris2.1[01], thus accidentally obsoleting them, too.

	Rainer

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