[PATCH] Obsolete support for Solaris < 10

[Jan Beulich]

On 27.11.2025 10:27, Rainer Orth wrote:
>> 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.

Hmm, yes, I indeed misread it. But then what's the 2.41 related sentence about?

Also, please don't drop the null part. See the later case command about removed
targets, where the null is retained despite there being a long list. Keeping it
will make more obvious what it should go back to when the Solaris cases are
moved to that other case command.

Jan