Re: IA-64 GCC deprecation?

On 6/13/19 10:54 PM, Jim Wilson wrote:
> They don't necessarily have to be fixed.  There just needs to be
> someone willing to accept responsibility for them, so that the global
> maintainers can say "it's not my problem; it's his/her problem".

And it seems Jason Duerstock is willing to do that.

> After all, I haven't done much IA-64 work over the last few years, and
> only fixed a few token problems, but that was good enough that
> everyone could point at me and say it was my problem if something
> broke.  Fortunately, backends rarely are responsible for breaking
> other things, so in practice this isn't much work.

So, it seems there isn't much pressure then to get rid of the backend
as soon as possible.

Adrian