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  • RFC: Deprecate ia64 in glibc 2.34

    From John Paul Adrian Glaubitz@21:1/5 to Paul Eggert on Tue Feb 2 01:50:01 2021
    Hello!

    On 2/2/21 12:51 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
    I just now reviewed that thread, and in it Adhemerval mentioned binutils' ia64
    support as an argument for sticking with ia64 in glibc. If binutils has deprecated,
    that argument goes away.

    I think Sergei Trofimovich fixed some issues in the ia64 binutils after it was announced
    the code was in danger. He is one of the Gentoo developers.

    That thread also mentioned that Jason Duerstock volunteered in July 2019 to be the ia64
    maintainer for GCC. However, although he submitted copyright paperwork I don't see any
    commits by him in GCC master, and the debian-ia64@lists.debian.org archive contains no
    email from him since then, neither of which is a good sign.

    I also have not heard from Jason for a while. I can try to contact him and find out what
    the status is.

    I'll cc this email to debian-ia64 to see if anyone there has further info re GCC on ia64.

    We should also pull in the Gentoo ia64 maintainers which I have done now.

    Adrian

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  • From Paul Eggert@21:1/5 to Florian Weimer via Libc-alpha on Tue Feb 2 01:20:01 2021
    On 2/1/21 8:36 AM, Florian Weimer via Libc-alpha wrote:
    [PATCH] NEWS: Deprecate ia64-linux-gnu
    <https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2021-January/122149.html>

    Consensus was not to deprecate the architecture, I think. But the
    binutils deprecation wasn't mentioned in the discussion.

    I just now reviewed that thread, and in it Adhemerval mentioned
    binutils' ia64 support as an argument for sticking with ia64 in glibc.
    If binutils has deprecated, that argument goes away.

    That thread also mentioned that Jason Duerstock volunteered in July 2019
    to be the ia64 maintainer for GCC. However, although he submitted
    copyright paperwork I don't see any commits by him in GCC master, and
    the debian-ia64@lists.debian.org archive contains no email from him
    since then, neither of which is a good sign.

    I'll cc this email to debian-ia64 to see if anyone there has further
    info re GCC on ia64.

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