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From: Joshua Kinard <kumba@gentoo.org>
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: IRIX support removal from the GNU toolchain
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 20:43:39 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5410F03B.6080505@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.11.1409110007340.11957@eddie.linux-mips.org>

On 09/10/2014 19:16, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> Everyone --
> 
>  Just to raise your attention, IRIX support removal is being discussed 
> across GNU toolchain mailing lists right now with the likely outcome of a 
> go-ahead very soon, especially as support for the OS itself has been 
> recently withdrawn by SGI and also toolchain maintainers have no access to 
> IRIX machines anymore.  So if there's anyone among you who in addition to 
> being keen on Linux for the MIPS platform is also an IRIX enthusiast and 
> would like to keep the platform alive in the GNU toolchain, now's about 
> time to speak up and step in as the maintainer.
> 
>   Maciej

My understanding is that IRIX was already removed from gcc two years ago,
deprecated in 4.7 and removed in 4.8:

https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/libstdc++/2012-03/msg00067.html

Not sure about binutils -- links to the mailing lists in question?

-- 
Joshua Kinard
Gentoo/MIPS
kumba@gentoo.org
4096R/D25D95E3 2011-03-28

"The past tempts us, the present confuses us, the future frightens us.  And our
lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible in-between."

--Emperor Turhan, Centauri Republic

  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-11  0:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-10 23:16 IRIX support removal from the GNU toolchain Maciej W. Rozycki
2014-09-11  0:43 ` Joshua Kinard [this message]
2014-09-29  1:17   ` Maciej W. Rozycki

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