Re: FYI: GCC dropped score support

[Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>]

On 10/07/2014 01:18 AM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
>> It seems pretty dead, the company's pages are 404, and the only
>> product I can find that used it was the Mattel HyperScan, introduced in
>> 2006 and discontinued in 2008 - apparently it made PC World's "10 Worst
>> Videogames of All Time" list.

Eh.  :-)

>> Even if the code isn't being used, I think it still costs us, in the
>> sense that we have to think about whether it needs changing, it has
>> to be patchedwhen there are global changes, and so forth.  So I
>> think we should whack it soon as decently possible.  (Of course, the
>> code will actually live on forever, in old releases and repos. :-) )
> 
> Seen under this light, it does make sense!

Agreed, that's my thinking too.  For still-fresh examples, the software
single-step rework work had me stop, think and actually write patches
for IRIX (deprecated_insert_raw_breakpoint).  And then just last week
I failed to notice some code was for Tru64 and wasted time writing
this patch:
  https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2014-10/msg00035.html

Thanks,
Pedro Alves