newlib is broken for spu target since 2.5.0.20170623

[Andrew Pinski]

On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 4:57 PM Michał Dec via Newlib
<newlib@sourceware.org> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I wanted to make a crosscompiler for the SPU on my PS3 with the newest
> newlib 3.3.0 but it failed. I've reported this issue to my distribution
> here https://bugs.gentoo.org/732206 and my investigations turned out
> this has been broken for some time now. I've also made a diff of the
> last working version and the first broken version here
> https://github.com/grepwood/newlib/commit/831b6666af1f83ac173b491a5c191246203ddc37
> and I can see there's something wrong POSIX threads but I'm not entirely
> sure. Could anyone assist please? I know the SPU target is pretty much
> dead, but there are also plans to bring the open-source PS3 SDK PSL1GHT
> up to speed with new networking code from newlib, and they will also be
> blocked if they can't get a compiler for the SPU.

Well the SPU back-end for GCC was removed in GCC 10.x and gdb release
this year.  So I am thinking we should remove support for spu from the
newlib too.  I am shocked it was removed from binutils though.

Thanks,
Andrew Pinski


>
> Best regards,
>
> Michał Dec
>