Re: RFC: Deprecate ia64 in glibc 2.34
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]>
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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 [email protected] 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 -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913