[cctalk] Re: Intel's i860, Cray-On-A-Chip

GCC does this in two steps. One is that it's marked as obsolete but can still be built, you just get a warning. The second is that the bits are actually removed. If you want to run something old, it's probably still good until that final removal. But given the lack of maintenance that triggers removal, it is certainly possible that there are some "bit rot" bugs before that point, possibly even before the first warning stage. paul