throwing std::runtime on PC BSP fails

[Sebastian Huber]

On 14/03/2019 21:11, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 3:06 PM Heinz Junkes <junkes at fhi-berlin.mpg.de 
> <mailto:junkes at fhi-berlin.mpg.de>> wrote:
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>     The porting of Epics-7 to RTEMS 5 is almost finished.
>
>     To run our tests we use Travis-Ci where we run qemu-i386.
>      (I couldn't find a suitable emulator for the PowerPC, beatnik
>     board. I do the tests on the hardware.)
>
>     Unfortunately our tests get stuck with one of the tests. This is
>     because
>
>     >> https://devel.rtems.org/ticket/2830
>
>     Are there any chance that this will be fixed soon?
>
>
> I don't think anyone is actively working on it. So doubtful.
>
> What CPU model are you compiling for? I suspect the atomics may vary 
> by CPU
> model.

We have the following i386 BSPs:

pc386
pc486
pc586
pc586-sse
pc686
pcp4

I think we should consolidate this. Would it make sense to reduce this 
to one variant which is built with GCC default options?

>
> FWIW The ticket needs a test case.

https://git.rtems.org/rtems/commit/?id=8c637ee3243828be703a15335df2f517a5ab493d

>
> This is a good example of someone needing funding to investigate. And
> the ticket owner indicates that.

The fix for this is removing support for obsolete hardware from my point 
of view.

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