On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 2:33 PM, Bernd Schmidt <bschm...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 10/12/2016 02:12 PM, John David Anglin wrote: >> >> On 2016-10-12, at 4:02 AM, Jakub Jelinek wrote: >> >>>> Since this is PA-RISC, which is essentially dead (neither HPE nor Debian >>>> ship it anymore), I stand by my suggestion to bump the fundamental >>>> alignment >>> >>> >>> Or just drop support for a dead arch? >> >> >> Hardware is still available on the second hand market. > > > So is the Commodore 64, but is that enough though to keep supporting PA in > gcc? Anyone who wants to do retrocomputing can still use gcc-6 or earlier > versions.
I'd say what applies to PA should apply equally well to the pdp11 and the alpha port ... But usually the question is just whether the port has a maintainer and/or whether it is a maintainance burden to keep it (say, last user of obsolete feature X). Richard. > > Bernd
