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

["Michael D Kinney" <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>]

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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