Re: Combining NOT_FOR_* and BROKEN_ON_*

[David Holland <dholland-pkgtech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Apr 03, 2025 at 10:19:33AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
 > NOT_FOR should be extremely rare, when there is a valid reason why
 > excluding the platform is fundamentally the right thing.  The canonical
 > example makes more sense in terms of ONLY_FOR, when the purpose of the
 > program is to use a non-standard API that is present only on a small
 > number of systems.

The other canonical case is a compiler that doesn't support certain
targets and where adding new targets is real work. In theory one could
do the work, but in practice it's not remotely realistic and we aren't
going to.

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David A. Holland
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