Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 18:26:44 +0000 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Gcc 4.2.1 to be removed before FreeBSD 13, a firm timeline Message-ID: <20190813182644.GQ94703@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfrZ-C37c7Eso7NrtMG5_kv3T9qO3c3k8xcgEeTCrY3nQg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CANCZdfrZ-C37c7Eso7NrtMG5_kv3T9qO3c3k8xcgEeTCrY3nQg@mail.gmail.com>
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--zROEGoKAXsG5UqGB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 10:00:30AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > Greetings, >=20 > As promised for almost the past decade or so, gcc 4.2.1 will be removed > from the tree before FreeBSD 13 is branched. Thank you for writing this up. > The timeline gives powerpc, mips, mips64, and sparc64 9 months to integra= te > either into an in-tree compiler, or to have a proven external toolchain > solution. This is on top of the many-years-long warnings about this being > the end game of the clang integration. We'll find time at $DAYJOB to get mips64 over the last hurdles if someone doesn't beat us there since we still need it until we get our CHERI RISC-V port up and stable (and any PhD students whose work depends on MIPS graduate). -- Brooks --zROEGoKAXsG5UqGB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJdUwDjAAoJEKzQXbSebgfACTsIAIyWoUuCaJ+0Vx2/9oQbgkbc ueZr9kw0+QWcrhfyWqvx227VGPTBvrTJpXT00iQw42XX3Lk1s1qxPp9fxVjGAZtG ttNlwxm4tzjRUOhJCxyvxPVWD6J42ffXQ7s3Vc0XffdflkmOI2l4aeNsAGVo2RJj QszO9Ew7gE/HEy5Ey5ENPyZ5kUvREJarXu0aPVOzLoPu/uvWuevdu7WLZHHsB601 XMJovX4aMRbwZTJqmmY4oHSF6o53z7LaBL7q1QFg5sDvPbb131SKl2ESQDsvlQqk sup+nH1dKBEvDBeYmgYewsFjmWebSvrxd4Ck9fNuTo/JJWz1EpCEBOEVVBUqfiI= =jbOo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --zROEGoKAXsG5UqGB--
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