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Re: RFC: split ColdFire from m68k backend
- From: Gunther Nikl <gni at gecko dot de>
- To: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- Cc: Peter Barada <peter at the-baradas dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 14:02:13 +0200
- Subject: Re: RFC: split ColdFire from m68k backend
- References: <20040505154044.C4CC198C8A@baradas.org> <je7jvqan36.fsf@sykes.suse.de>
On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 05:51:57PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Peter Barada <peter@the-baradas.com> writes:
>
> > As I've been working on the ColdFire backend more and more, I'm
> > starting to believe that it can benifit from being split off from the
> > m68k backend. This would allow m68k to maintain its current level of
> > stability while allowing a complete rewrite of the ColdFire backend to
> > bring it more in line with the other backends.
Would separating ColdFire from m68k duplicate lots of code? Would it be
possible to improve the current merged backend as-is?
> I wouldn't mind having a modernized m68k backend. :-)
What things have to be changed to modernized the m68k backend?
Gunther