Gcc 4.2.1 to be removed before FreeBSD 13, a firm timeline

[Ed Maste]

On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 at 12:00, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> As promised for almost the past decade or so, gcc 4.2.1 will be removed
> from the tree before FreeBSD 13 is branched.
>
...
> 2019-12-31: Turn off gcc 4.2.1 build by default (can be turned on)

Reminder, this is less than two weeks away. In my no-gcc-4.2.1
experiments sparc64, mips64el and mips64elhf are currently failing.
Turning off GCC 4.2.1 won't immediately cause their eviction, but the
clock is running for them to be fixed or removed:

> 2020-03-31: svn rm gcc 4.2.1 and friends
>
> 2020-05-31: svn rm all non-clang platforms not supported by in-tree LLVM or
> converted to ext toolchain.