From: Jens Remus <jremus@linux.ibm.com>
To: binutils@sourceware.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org,
Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>, Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>,
Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>, Jim Wilson <wilson@tuliptree.org>,
DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>, Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>,
Michael Meissner <gnu@the-meissners.org>,
Richard Sandiford <rdsandiford@googlemail.com>,
Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>,
Andreas Krebbel <krebbel@linux.ibm.com>,
Andreas Arnez <arnez@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Jens Remus <jremus@linux.ibm.com>,
Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>,
Stefan Liebler <stli@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/1] s390: Deprecate s390 32-bit target "s390-*"
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:00:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260423120006.3740571-2-jremus@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260423120006.3740571-1-jremus@linux.ibm.com>
The s390 32-bit target (s390-*) is deprecated and planned for removal
in a future release, along with the elf32-s390 target format. Emit an
error for this target during configure, which can be overridden using
option --enable-obsolete.
Linux Kernel 6.19 removed s390 32-bit compatibility support. [1]
Glibc 2.43 deprecated s390 32-bit with the intent to remove it in a
future release. [2]
GCC 16 will deprecate s390 32-bit (compiler option -m31) with the intent
to remove it in a future release. [3]
The s390 64-bit target (s390x-*) remains supported.
[1]: Linux kernel 6.19 commit 8e0b986c59c6 ("s390: Remove compat support"),
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8e0b986c59c6
[2]: Glibc 2.43 commit 638d437dbf9c ("Deprecate s390-linux-gnu (31bit)"),
https://sourceware.org/git/glibc.git?a=commitdiff;h=638d437dbf9c
[3]: GCC 16 commit 5886bb453a6a ("s390: Deprecate -m31"),
https://gcc.gnu.org/git/gcc.git?h=5886bb453a6a
bfd/
* config.bfd: Require --enable-obsolete to build s390 32-bit
target "s390-*".
binutils/
* NEWS: Deprecate s390 32-bit target "s390-*".
gdb/
* NEWS: Deprecate s390 32-bit target "s390-*".
Signed-off-by: Jens Remus <jremus@linux.ibm.com>
---
Notes (jremus):
Changes in v2:
- Add likewise gdb/NEWS entry.
- Correct GNU ChangeLog in commit message.
bfd/config.bfd | 1 +
binutils/NEWS | 8 ++++++++
gdb/NEWS | 13 +++++++++++++
3 files changed, 22 insertions(+)
diff --git a/bfd/config.bfd b/bfd/config.bfd
index 9472a481f81c..2d00d07cdc8d 100644
--- a/bfd/config.bfd
+++ b/bfd/config.bfd
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ targ_underscore=no
# Catch obsolete configurations.
case $targ in
+ s390-* | \
null)
if test "x$enable_obsolete" != xyes; then
echo "*** Configuration $targ is obsolete." >&2
diff --git a/binutils/NEWS b/binutils/NEWS
index 5ac0e8b78114..5e802fe0be8d 100644
--- a/binutils/NEWS
+++ b/binutils/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
-*- text -*-
+* The s390 32-bit target (s390-*) is deprecated and planned for removal in a
+ future release, along with the elf32-s390 target format. configure emits
+ an error for this target, which can be overridden using --enable-obsolete.
+ Linux Kernel 6.19 removed s390 32-bit compatibility support. Glibc 2.43
+ has and GCC 16 will deprecate s390 32-bit, both with the intent to remove
+ it in a future release.
+ The s390 64-bit target (s390x-*) remains supported.
+
* Objdump and readelf now have a --debug-dir=<DIR> option which can be used to
tell them where to find separate debug info files.
diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index 6b5c2f6a46a3..ea2d2cac2964 100644
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -72,12 +72,25 @@
automatically set to UTF-8. (Users can use the Windows 'chcp'
command to change the output codepage of the console.)
+* The s390 32-bit target (s390-*) is deprecated and planned for
+ removal in a future release, along with the elf32-s390 target
+ format. configure now emits an error for this target, which can be
+ overridden using --enable-obsolete.
+ Linux Kernel 6.19 removed s390 32-bit compatibility support.
+ Glibc 2.43 has and GCC 16 will deprecate s390 32-bit, both with
+ the intent to remove it in a future release.
+ The s390 64-bit target (s390x-*) remains supported.
+
* New targets
GNU/Linux/MicroBlaze (gdbserver) microblazeel-*linux*
AArch64 MinGW aarch64-*-mingw*
+* Deprecated targets
+
+GNU/Linux/S390 32-bit s390-*-*
+
* New commands
set local-environment
--
2.51.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-23 12:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-23 12:00 [PATCH v2 0/1] " Jens Remus
2026-04-23 12:00 ` Jens Remus [this message]
2026-06-22 12:12 ` Jens Remus
[not found] ` <6c8ebd42-d0af-43c0-add9-6e9dc906f771@linux.ibm.com>
2026-07-06 9:00 ` Andreas Arnez
2026-07-06 14:45 ` Jens Remus
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