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From: Ben Elliston <bje@au1.ibm.com>
To: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
Cc: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org,
	        binutils@sourceware.org, ian@airs.com,
	dberlin@dberlin.org
Subject: Re: PATCH: remove libiberty/ternary.c et al
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:08:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1185328845.14525.1.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200707250140.l6P1eVjQ002759@greed.delorie.com>

On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 21:40 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:

> It's been sitting there for six years, and I'm not a fan of making new
> libiberty versions not backward compatible.  Are there any other
> reasons to remove it besides "it's there" ?

Only the burden of maintaining it.

There is only a backward compatibility problem if there is a client of
these routines and we have no reason to believe there is.

Ben



  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-25  2:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-25  1:40 Ben Elliston
2007-07-25  2:00 ` DJ Delorie
2007-07-25  2:08   ` Ben Elliston [this message]
2007-07-25  3:58     ` DJ Delorie
2007-07-25  5:21       ` Daniel Berlin
2007-07-25  6:39       ` Ian Lance Taylor
2007-07-25 15:25         ` Ben Elliston

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