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Re: patch/proposal: obsolete configurations in 3.1
- From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Kevin Handy <kth at srv dot net>, Andi Kleen <ak at suse dot de>
- Cc: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>, "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 07:22:25 -0700
- Subject: Re: patch/proposal: obsolete configurations in 3.1
- References: <3CBA0045.5090401@srv.net>
>> pdp10-*
>>
> I wouldn't advise dropping the PDP10, since it is making a resurgance due
> to the emulators that have become available. I believe this target is
> actually fairly new.
I'm going to take a position here that I'll likely get flamed for, but
so be it. The mere existence of hardware or an emulator for same does
not mean that GCC should support that target. Neither does the existence
of a set of users for that target. Instead, I believe that there should
be active development of new code for something approximating production
use by a relatively large number of people. (People can always maintain
their own GCC port to any chip they like, but I don't think the FSF
should do so.)
Obviously, this is a grey area, but I can't imagine the PDP-10, even
in emulation, being used for new development. (I do know that people
are running real applications on these emulators, but my understanding
was that many of these were old accounting applications for which the
source was no longer available.)
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