FYI: GCC dropped score support

[Stan Shebs]

On 10/6/14, 4:36 PM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
>> While the deprecation theme is playing in the background ...
>>
>> I noticed that GCC has just removed support for score:
>>
>>  https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-10/msg00305.html
>>
>> I'm looking at score-tdep.c/score-tdep.h and wondering if
>> it makes any sense to still maintain that...
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%2Bcore
> 
> Thinking out loud...
> 
> If the port isn't getting in the way, perhaps we could send out
> a quick deprecation warning announce following our standard protocol;
> but instead of actually removing support right away, we'd just
> keep it on a best-effort basis? I'm not actually sure this is
> a good idea at all, as not receiving any response today does not
> mean that people might not be starting using it again tomorrow...
> 
> So, unless we think there is enough benefit in remove support for
> this target sooner rather than later, the other option is to keep
> the info you about GCC in mind if it ever starts getting in the way?
> 

It seems pretty dead, the company's pages are 404, and the only
product I can find that used it was the Mattel HyperScan, introduced in
2006 and discontinued in 2008 - apparently it made PC World's "10 Worst
Videogames of All Time" list.

Even if the code isn't being used, I think it still costs us, in the
sense that we have to think about whether it needs changing, it has
to be patchedwhen there are global changes, and so forth.  So I
think we should whack it soon as decently possible.  (Of course, the
code will actually live on forever, in old releases and repos. :-) )

Stan
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