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boundary="------------T45skuDEYlo5ydeJd5Bhdcte" Content-Language: en-GB X-BeenThere: gdb@sourceware.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.30 Precedence: list List-Id: Gdb mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , From: Nick Clifton via Gdb Reply-To: Nick Clifton Errors-To: gdb-bounces~public-inbox=simark.ca@sourceware.org Sender: "Gdb" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------T45skuDEYlo5ydeJd5Bhdcte Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Guys, I would like to deprecate or even delete the ARM simulator. Although I am listed as the maintainer for the sim, I have not made any improvements to it for years and it is completely unable to handle modern ARM cores. The only updates to the sources in the last few years have been to fix compilation issues, and basically it has bit-rotted away. It is not entirely clear to me how a sim target should be deprecated. I am attaching a patch that shows one possible method - adding code to the sim/configure.ac file to indicate that the target is deprecated. An alternative would be to add the sim target to the noconfigdirs list that is constructed in the top level configure.ac file. Although I think that that list is for components that do not support the target at all, rather than components where the target is deprecated. Anyway, thoughts, comments, suggestions ? 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