Re: [edk2-devel] Removal of VS2015 (and maybe VS2017) and deprecated toolchains (GCC48, GCC49, GCC5)

["Rebecca Cran" <rebecca@bsdio.com>]

Sure, that’s not a problem.

On Wed, Oct 23, 2024, at 9:23 PM, Kinney, Michael D wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I will need more time to review this impacts of this proposal.
>
> Can we extend the timeline for comments to mid November.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: devel@edk2.groups.io <devel@edk2.groups.io> On Behalf Of Leif
>> Lindholm via groups.io
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2024 5:15 AM
>> To: devel@edk2.groups.io; rebecca@bsdio.com
>> Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] Removal of VS2015 (and maybe VS2017) and
>> deprecated toolchains (GCC48, GCC49, GCC5)
>> 
>> On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 at 12:19, Rebecca Cran <rebecca@bsdio.com> wrote:
>> > In addition, since GCC48, GCC49 and GCC5 have been marked deprecated
>> for
>> > over a year, I'd like to proceed with removing them as well.
>> >
>> > Please provide feedback by Thursday October 31st. In the absence of
>> > feedback I'll plan to proceed with removing VS2015, GCC48, GCC49 and
>> GCC5.
>> 
>> No comment on the VS ones, but for the GCC ones, I'm all for it.
>> 
>> We might also want to raise an issue on deleting workarounds put into
>> place for ancient toolchains.
>> For gcc48/49 that was redundant initialization due to broken
>> use-uninitialized detection.
>> e.g.
>> https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/master/OvmfPkg/Library/X86QemuLoa
>> dImageLib/X86QemuLoadImageLib.c#L346
>> 
>> /
>>     Leif
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>


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