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Re: Beyond GCC 3.0: Summing Up
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 10:35:27PM +0200, Marc Espie wrote:
> 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
What do you mean by barely? As a platform, MIPS is still generating
constant new design work. As a GCC supported target, H.J. and others
have been doing a great deal of work on it lately.
> 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...)
Thus, cross compilers. Especially for MIPS, big in the embedded space.
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Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
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