Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/6] softfloat: remove HPPA specific code

[Aurelien Jarno]

On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 08:54:04PM +0100, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Am 03.01.2011 um 15:34 schrieb Aurelien Jarno:
>
>> We don't have any HPPA target, so let's remove HPPA specific code. It
>> can be re-added when someone adds an HPPA target.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <address@hidden>
>
> There actually is such a project on SourceForge [1, 2].

The project hasn't seen any commit for 1.5 year. It looks like dead.

> Does it really hurt to leave TARGET_HPPA around?

It means writing code for this target, in the current case for
floatXX_maybe_silence_NaN(). I don't see the point of writing and
maintaining unused code if we don't get the insurance the target is
going to be merged later. Unless someone volunteer to maintain this
code.

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