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Re: Code base to start a port
- To: Alan Lehotsky <apl at alum dot mit dot edu>
- Subject: Re: Code base to start a port
- From: Michael Meissner <meissner at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 16:12:20 -0500
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <p04330103b6b1c2bae498@[192.168.1.254]>
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 12:34:57PM -0500, Alan Lehotsky wrote:
> I'm looking for any consensus as to what code base would be best to start a
> GCC port from.
>
> This is strictly a C compiler project, no C++ is required. I'm
> trying to pick between
> using 2.95.3 which is very stable, obviously and using 3.0 which is
> obviously still
> a little bit slushy.
>
> Is there any particular optimization or other structural reasons to
> prefer the 3.0 code base?
> For example, I would like to use the new peephole2 mechanisms (Is
> that the right name for the
> new defines in the .md?) - I don't know if that's in 2.95.3 - I
> suspect it's not.
If you use 2.95.3, then you will have a big flag day when you do try to merge
up to the current revision, since you will be getting 2 years of changes at
once.
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