[PATCH] Remove Solaris/PowerPC support

Alan Modra amodra@gmail.com
Tue Sep 16 01:13:30 GMT 2025


On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 11:56:34AM +0200, Rainer Orth wrote:
> Solaris/PowerPC was a shortlived Solaris port with limited hardware
> support.  It was released with Solaris 2.5.1 back in 1996, with support
> removed again only a year later in Solaris 2.6.  Since this is long
> obsolete, this patch removes the remains of the support.

I'll OK this patch.

> Tested by a cross to ppc-unknown-linux-gnu to ascertain the build didn't
> get broken.
> 
> There are two issues to note:
> 
> * gas/stabs.c has a Solaris/PowerPC reference.  I've left that as is.

Please remove that too.  The changelog entry said it was added for
compatibility with the Solaris assembler.

> * The gas/po files need to be regenerated.  I've now idea how, so I left
>   them alone.  At that occasion I noticed that there are both es.po and
>   gas.es.po in gas/po.  I found that confusing.

It looks like gas.es.po was an error, and es.po is newer.  I'll remove
gas.es.po.

-- 
Alan Modra


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