Re: SunOS ports (M68k and sparc)

[Jones Desougi <jones at ingate dot com>]

Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> ...
> 
> I do not think we should restore SunOS -- or any other obsoleted
> target -- just because someone offers to maintain the port.  Having
> someone maintain the port doesn't magically free all the rest of us
> from the burden of keeping that port up to date with changes made to
> target-independent code.  I think we should only restore such targets
> if compelling reasons are presented why the entire GCC community
> should bear the additional burden of supporting these old systems.

Good points.
With just me interested in these ports there is hardly compelling
reasons.

As good as an older version of GCC may be, it will not support newer
standards (or additional languages). It is still far better than the
system compiler of course.

   /Jones