RFC: 32-bit x86 port maintenance, stepping down as maintainer

[Thomas Stüfe]

On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 9:52 AM Andrew Haley <aph-open at littlepinkcloud.com>
wrote:

> On 7/10/24 23:19, David Alayachew wrote:
> > I guess one final question -- is there any other 32 bit port that will
> remain alive after this goes? Or does this mean that new versions of Java
> are no longer available to developers who are forcefully stuck on 32 bit
> machines?
>
> I think there's a stronger motivation to keep 32-bit Arm going.
>
>
I agree, it is widely used in embedded space.

Question: would we keep zero x86 alive at least? Today,
--with-target-bits=32 makes it very easy to quickly test 32-bit on our
ubiquitous x64 machines. Taking that away will bitrot arm32 even more
quickly.
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