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Re: Beyond GCC 3.0: Summing Up
- To: jbuck at synopsys dot com
- Subject: Re: Beyond GCC 3.0: Summing Up
- From: Marc Espie <espie at quatramaran dot ens dot fr>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 22:35:27 +0200
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: Ecole Normale Superieure (quatramaran)
- References: <200107101730.SAA04341@cam-mail2.cambridge.arm.com>
In article <200107101810.LAA16404@racerx.synopsys.com> you write:
>> > > [1] Some regressions we do not even care about. So what if romp
>> > > doesn't build?
>> > Agreed, we should only care about primary platforms.
>> I disagree. We should care about any platform that has an active user
>> base. Otherwise we end up defining the problem away.
>OK, we should define a list of platforms we care about. gcc has
>(bitrotted) support for processors that no longer exist.
Mips does still exist, barely. Vax does as well. The things that are killing
those is the increasing amount of bugs in gcc releases. Likewise for m68k,
but less so (and lack of knowledgeable people to fix those bugs, along
with the very time consuming nature of building gcc on a somewhat slow
machine...)