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GCC Developers Discuss Dropping Poorly Supported, Niche CPU Architectures
Following the discussion over potentially obsoleting/deprecating the Itanium IA-64 support within the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), developers are discussing similar treatment for some of the other poorly-maintained CPU ports.
GCC developers have begun discussing potentially deprecating some of the other CPU ports that rarely ever see new code activity. There are also known limitations with some of them, not supporting modern GCC features, and just rotting away without any active maintainership. It's likely we'll see all three of them end up being deprecated and then removed a release cycle later if no one steps up to maintain the code.
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