Solaris 11.3 has reached the end of its support live, as can be seen in the following overview based on
https://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/lifetime-support-hardware-301321.pdf, p.40: Release GA Date Last Premier Extended GCC Update Support Support Obsoletion Removal Solaris 8 Feb 2000 Feb 2002 Mar 2009 Mar 2012 Mar 2011 Mar 2012 Solaris 9 Mar 2002 Sep 2005 Oct 2011 Oct 2014 May 2013 Apr 2014 Solaris 10 Jan 2005 Jan 2013 Jan 2018 Jan 2021 May? 2019 May? 2020 Solaris 11.3 Oct 2015 Aug 2018 Jan 2021 Jan 2024 Dec? 2022 May? 2023 There are some features missing in Solaris 11.3 (dl_iterate_phdr, pipe2) that make continued support more difficult, especially when it gets to getting workarounds into upstream codebases like LLVM or Golang that don't support anything but Solaris 11.4. Therefore I think it's time to obsolete support for anything before Solaris 11.4 in GCC 13, thus removing it in GCC 14. There's one highly unfortunate side effect, though: the only public Solaris 11.3 build system (gcc211 in the GCC Compile Farm) cannot be upgraded to Solaris 11.4. I'm currently trying to get one or more alternative systems in place to avoid that issue. I'm going to post patches for the actual obsoletion and an entry for wwwdocs shortly. Rainer -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University
