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Re: Release 2.21 - rough schedule
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Richard Sandiford wrote:
> Talking about deprecation, I wonder if anyone uses the non-ELF MIPS
> ports with up-to-date binutils? mips-ecoff has had terrible testresults
> for a while, but I've no idea whether the failures are benign.
At least the capability to `objcopy' to ecoff-*mips has to stay for the
sake of some old systems' firmware requiring that format for boot images
(though some may prefer the `elf2ecoff' tool lurking around). Therefore
I'd expect a need for the BFD target to stay for the foreseeable future;
the rest may or may not be required -- AFAIR DEC Ultrix support was
dropped from GCC a while ago; can't say about SGI IRIX or MIPSCO systems.
That written I may well see if I can find some time to have a look into
these ECOFF failures; I have planned to do some ECOFF testing having had
seen some changes to relocation matching patterns that were a bit too
aggressive IMO.
Maciej