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Re: New port contribution - picoChip
- From: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM>
- To: Giovanni Bajo <rasky at develer dot com>
- Cc: Daniel Towner <daniel dot towner at picochip dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 10:25:58 -0700
- Subject: Re: New port contribution - picoChip
- References: <43259F79.1050202@picochip.com> <09e401c5b7ba$c71ace70$bf03030a@trilan>
Daniel Towner <daniel.towner@picochip.com> wrote:
> > The linker and assembler used by the port are proprietary, and can't
> > be made publicly available at this point. The port will have to be
> > assembler output only.
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 06:55:28PM +0200, Giovanni Bajo wrote:
> I suppose this means that nobody but you will ever be able to run/test your
> backend. If you are fine with this, I don't think anybody will object.
Daniel wrote "at this point". Presumably they will eventually be made
available. Even if they are forever proprietary, others would be able
to port the GNU assembler and linker at a later time.