Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 12407 from 2003/5/22
From: Germany
> they are finally removing SPE support from GCC(8)
Discussions on deprecating it already in GCC7 started 2 years ago:
https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2017-02/msg00041.htmlhttps://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2017-05/msg01227.htmlThe deprecation was then postponed to GCC8:
https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2018-04/msg00810.htmlhttps://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2018-04/msg00102.htmlGCC9 is supposed to have it removed completely:
https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2018-11/msg00078.htmlhttps://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2018-12/msg00123.htmlAs can be imagined, the maintainer of Debian for powerpcspe in general (and Tabor/A1222 in particular) has not been amused about this decision:
https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2018-04/msg00107.htmlhttps://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=81084 (see comments)
The
official GCC8 page has this information since March at least:
"
The PowerPC SPE support is split off to a separate powerpcspe port. The separate port is deprecated and might be removed in a future release."
