On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 8:39 PM, Robert Dewar wrote: > On 12/12/2012 1:01 PM, Steven Bosscher wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> Linux support for i386 has been removed. Should we do the same for GCC? >> The "oldest" ix86 variant that'd be supported would be i486. > > > Are there any embedded chips that still use the 386 instruction set?
Hard to be sure, but doubtful. A search with Google doesn't give anything that suggests someone's selling 386-ISA embedded chips. I'd also expect even the most low-end embedded chip would use the 486 ISA, which is a small bug significant extension to 386. And as usual: If you use an almost 30 years old architecture, why would you need the latest-and-greatest compiler technology? Seriously... Ciao! Steven
