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Re: Target deprecation, round three
- From: Steven Bosscher <s dot bosscher at student dot tudelft dot nl>
- To: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>,Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>,Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>,Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 25 Feb 2003 00:23:08 +0100
- Subject: Re: Target deprecation, round three
- References: <200302242312.SAA31278@makai.watson.ibm.com>
Op di 25-02-2003, om 00:12 schreef David Edelsohn:
> >>>>> Daniel Jacobowitz writes:
>
> > I'm concerned that we're keeping support for the i370 based on some
> > work David says Red Hat has done on the port, which is not in the tree.
> > I seem to recall messages to the effect of "the i370 port in FSF GCC
> > does not work, but there's this code in Red Hat somewhere that does";
> > my apologies if I'm misinterpreting someone.
>
> The Red Hat work apparently was based on the s390 port, not the
> i370 port, but there are people who use and maintain the i370 port.
>
> As I mentioned in my previous reply, Dave Pitts would try to
> maintain the i370 port if we were not making the process so difficult.
Well that's quite a choice, eh? Making it easier to maintain a _single_
HOST_EBCDIC port of relatively minor importance (no offense), at the
cost of making it harder to maintain C99 support for literaly _all_
other ports...
Greetz
Steven