Re: [DynInst_API:] Pruning former platform support

[Barton Miller <bart@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Josh and thanks for this offer.  Yes, this type of cleanup is overdue.

Yes, we can definitely cut support for:
Alpha
MIPS
IRIX
Solaris

I'd like to get Jeff Hollingsworth's comments on vxworks (Jeff is cc'd).

And I'm not sure what OSF is.  Folks?

As for AIX, any comments on whether this will come up again with IBM?

--bart


> On Jan 9, 2014, at 4:22 PM, Josh Stone <jistone@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> As I look for minor tasks that I can help with, one possibility is to
> clean up platforms that used to be supported, but are no longer.
> 
> First looking at arch_* macros, arch_alpha and arch_mips have just one
> tiny occurrence each, and seem like obvious things to prune.
> 
> There are more os_* macros.  I think os_freebsd, os_linux, os_windows,
> and all the os_bg* platforms are the only ones with active support.
> That leaves os_aix, os_irix, os_osf, os_solaris, and os_vxworks which
> seem to not be supported anymore.
> 
> So, would patches be acceptable to remove code for these platforms?  As
> a first pass, I just intend to look around those mentioned macros, and
> any source files that were completely specific to those platforms.
> Later we might approach it a little more deeply, for example by removing
> unneeded abstractions.
> 
> 
> Josh
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