Issue #21371 has been updated by jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans). ioquatix (Samuel Williams) wrote in #note-7:
Thanks for that list.
What do you think a realistic deprecation/removal timeline might look like for SPARC?
After the open source operating systems that currently support SPARC (OpenBSD, NetBSD, Debian, and Gentoo) drop support for it, then I think removing support for SPARC in Ruby would be fine. ---------------------------------------- Misc #21371: Proposal to Remove SPARC Architecture Support from Ruby https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/21371#change-113425 * Author: ioquatix (Samuel Williams) * Status: Assigned * Assignee: ngoto (Naohisa Goto) ---------------------------------------- We propose removing support for the SPARC architecture from Ruby. SPARC has seen little to no community usage in recent years, and its continued presence in the codebase, particularly through special cases like `rb_sparc_flush_register_windows` adds complexity without clear benefit. Removing SPARC support will reduce maintenance overhead and simplify Ruby’s internals. ## Proposal We propose removing all SPARC-specific code from the Ruby source tree, including `rb_sparc_flush_register_windows` and related build system conditionals. This change would be noted in the release documentation and targeted for inclusion in Ruby 4.0. -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/