Re: [Tinycc-devel] Drop OABI and FPA from arm-gen.c

[Christian Jullien]

I second Daniel that a feature should not be removed before an "obsolescent"
period.
IMHO, you should add a warning now and you can remove OABI and FPA right
after the tcc new version is released.
If you prefer, you can fork arm file to xxx-oabi.c now and leave a comment
for those who want OABI saying this file is no more maintained and will be
removed in the next version.

Christian

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Daniel Glöckner
Sent: mardi 11 février 2014 00:19
To: Thomas Preudhomme
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Subject: Re: [Tinycc-devel] Drop OABI and FPA from arm-gen.c

Hi Thomas,

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 10:22:03PM +0800, Thomas Preudhomme wrote:
> No new hardware come with a FPA unit as far as I know and kernel FPA 
> implementation was removed from the Linux kernel a few versions ago.

Russel King wanted to remove the NWFPE emulator in April 2013 because of
licensing issues, but Linus overruled him. It is still available in
3.14-rc2.

> Also you might yourself have some hardware or installation with them

I do still have the SL-5500 that I used back then to develop the TinyCC ARM
backend, but the only thing I do with it these days is to recharge the
battery.

I suppose that doesn't change your mind, does it?

How about a big fat warning to users of ARM OABI in 0.9.27 before it is
removed once and for all an 0.9.28?

Best regards,

  Daniel

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