Fwd: Obsolete powerpc*-*-*spe*

[Sebastian Huber]

Looks like embedded PowerPC is going to die in GCC:

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Subject: 	Obsolete powerpc*-*-*spe*
Date: 	Mon, 13 Feb 2017 21:07:03 -0600
From: 	Segher Boessenkool <segher at kernel.crashing.org>
To: 	gcc at gcc.gnu.org
CC: 	dje.gcc at gmail.com



Hi all,

I propose to mark powerpc*-*-*spe* as obsolete in GCC 7.  This includes
the spe.h installed header file, all the __builtin_spe* intrinsics, the
-mfloat-gprs= command-line option, and the support for the SPE ABIs.

No one has properly tested these targets in a long time (the latest
testresults I could find are from July 2015, >1000 failures), and the
SPE support makes a lot of code much more complex.

Any objections to this obsoletion?  GCC 7 will then be the last release
with support for SPE (it will need --enable-obsolete to build these
targets), and we will delete the SPE support during GCC 8 development.


Segher