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Re: Target deprecation, round three
- From: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
- To: Steven Bosscher <s dot bosscher at student dot tudelft dot nl>
- 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: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:51:17 -0500
- Subject: Re: Target deprecation, round three
>>>>> Steven Bosscher writes:
Steven> Well that's quite a choice, eh? Making it easier to maintain a _single_
Steven> HOST_EBCDIC port of relatively minor importance (no offense), at the
Steven> cost of making it harder to maintain C99 support for literaly _all_
Steven> other ports...
Maybe you should remind yourself of GCC's Mission Statement:
GCC development is a part of the GNU Project, aiming to improve the
compiler used in the GNU system including the GNU/Linux variant. The GCC
development effort uses an open development environment and supports many
other platforms in order to foster a world-class optimizing compiler, to
attract a larger team of developers, to ensure that GCC and the GNU system
work on multiple architectures and diverse environments, and to more
thoroughly test and extend the features of GCC.
We have motivation to support non-GNU, non-Unix, non-ASCII platforms. If
we decide that an existing, working, useful target is expendible, where
does it end?
David