Re: Removing ARCNET stuffs

[Andrew Cagney <andrew.cagney%gmail.com@localhost>]

Yes, I'm being hypocritical :-)

On 31 May 2015 at 02:05, matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost> wrote:
>
> hi Andrew! :)
>
>> Who is appalled to discover that pc532 support has been removed!
>
> get your GCC and binutils and GDB pals to put the support back
> in the toolchain and we'll have something to talk about :-)

> note that we've revived the playstation2 port now that its has
> had its toolchain components finally appear in mainline ... ;)

Right.  It takes time, effort and motivation to maintain code.  Not
people lamenting lost history :-)

--

For reference, this is what I wrote in 2004, when starting the process
of removing ns32k support when starting the process of removing NS32k
support.  It was two releases and roughly another year before the code
was completely removed.  It probably serves as a useful study given
what is being discussed here - extra infrastructure to prop up dieing
code just delayed the inevitable :-)

* END-OF-LIFE frame compatibility module

GDB's internal frame infrastructure has been completely rewritten.
The new infrastructure making it possible to support key new features
including DWARF 2 Call Frame Information.  To aid in the task of
migrating old configurations to this new infrastructure, a
compatibility module, that allowed old configurations to continue to
work, was also included.

GDB 6.2 will be the last release to include this frame compatibility
module.  This change directly impacts the following configurations:

h8300-*-*
mcore-*-*
mn10300-*-*
ns32k-*-*
sh64-*-*
v850-*-*
xstormy16-*-*