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Re: Deprecating and removing old targets

> On 13 Sep 2016, at 18:26, Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 13 Sep 2016, Jeff Law wrote:
> 
>> We might consider dropping hppa-som, which is an HPUX 32 bit only object
>> format.  We'd keep ELF for the linux port.
> 
> Which would suggest obsoleting 32-bit hppa-hpux support in GCC 
> (install.texi says "We require using gas/binutils on all hppa 
> platforms.").

hppa-hpux deprecation in gcc was already suggested.
But I think John David Anglin (in CC:) still maintain it.  Is that correct ?

>  (If the pre-ELF OpenBSD ports were also removed, that would 
> leave pdp11 as the only GCC port defining TARGET_HAVE_NAMED_SECTIONS to 
> false.)

Humm, not sure about XCOFF (powerpc aix).  XCOFF certainly support gc-section,
but not arbitrary named sections.
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