svn commit: r356367 - in head: . share/mk

[Warner Losh]

On Sun, Jan 5, 2020, 11:21 AM Ed Maste <emaste at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 at 13:16, Pedro Giffuni <pfg at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> >   It's really nice how the compiler warning trend went down.
> >
> > On FreeBSD-head-mips-build* it went from 7691 warnings to 473 + 83.
>
> Thanks for mentioning that. Continuing to support ancient GCC is a
> drag on everyone using a contemporary compiler for development
> (in-tree or external toolchain) and thus I stuck with Warner's
> original timeline even though there are a few warts to resolve on some
> archs still.
>

And the warts are generally adequately resolved by external toolchain.
Except for sparc64, for which nobody has done any nontrivial work on for
this transition. All the other architects have had most of this issues
identified with process resolved, or well on the way to resolution. This
total lack of work on sparc64 may result in an accelerated timeline for its
removal.

Warner

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