<div dir="ltr">FYI<br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Jakub Jelinek</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jakub@redhat.com">jakub@redhat.com</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 3:57 AM<br>Subject: Deprecation of powerpc*-*-*spe*<br>To: <a href="mailto:gcc@gcc.gnu.org">gcc@gcc.gnu.org</a><br><br><br>As has been discussed in the<br>
<a href="https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2017-02/msg00041.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/<wbr>2017-02/msg00041.html</a><br>
<a href="https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2017-05/msg01227.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-<wbr>patches/2017-05/msg01227.html</a><br>
<a href="https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2018-04/msg00810.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-<wbr>patches/2018-04/msg00810.html</a><br>
threads and in<br>
<a href="https://gcc.gnu.org/PR81084" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://gcc.gnu.org/PR81084</a><br>
the powerpc*-*-*spe* support which has been split into a separate backend<br>
hasn't been given enough maintainance and so is deprecated in GCC 8.<br>
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It can still be built with --enable-obsolete.  If the maintainers don't<br>
manage to remove the dead parts of the port and start actually maintaining<br>
it early in the GCC 9 stage1 development, the port will be removed.<br>
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