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From: "Leif Lindholm via groups.io" <leif.lindholm=oss.qualcomm.com@groups.io>
To: devel@edk2.groups.io, rebecca@bsdio.com
Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] Removal of VS2015 (and maybe VS2017) and deprecated toolchains (GCC48, GCC49, GCC5)
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 13:14:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAD=n3R095X5t7w=tNL8d0SnBpzyZ-fCAxO8TFOgzY7U=W3+RHQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1ed98fbf-7799-4391-aa8e-337e8cc5e5c7@bsdio.com>

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/X86QemuLoadImageLib/X86QemuLoadImageLib.c#L346

/
    Leif


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  reply	other threads:[~2024-10-23 17:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-10-22 11:18 [edk2-devel] Removal of VS2015 (and maybe VS2017) and deprecated toolchains (GCC48, GCC49, GCC5) Rebecca Cran
2024-10-22 12:14 ` Leif Lindholm via groups.io [this message]
2024-10-24  3:23   ` Michael D Kinney
2024-10-24  5:14     ` Rebecca Cran
2024-11-22  5:05     ` Rebecca Cran
2024-11-22 21:08       ` Michael D Kinney via groups.io
2024-11-22 22:30         ` Rebecca Cran via groups.io
2024-11-23  0:01           ` Michael D Kinney via groups.io
2024-11-24 17:56             ` Michael D Kinney via groups.io
2024-11-24 19:56               ` Rebecca Cran
2024-10-22 15:53 ` [edk2-devel] [edk2-discuss] " Sean
2024-10-22 17:38   ` Michael D Kinney
2024-10-22 23:16     ` Rebecca Cran

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