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GCC Developers Discuss Dropping Poorly Supported, Niche CPU Architectures (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

Noooooo... how else can we rebuild the garage door opener firmware from 1992?

[–] Tempy@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

Does GCC support pluggable backends? I feel when something like this comes up, the real answer should be, for those that make sense to drop from the core, it'd make sense to make them pluggable and separate them out, so that those that need them can pick them up if they need.

[–] bookmeat@lemmynsfw.com -4 points 4 months ago

There goes that argument against Rust...