Re: GCC 4.3 Platform List

[Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>]

Andrew Pinski wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 23:11 -0400, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> > Reactions?
>
> Change powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu to powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu so that
> we also require the 64bit of PowerPC to work. 

To be clear, you're suggesting that we say 
"powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu", but mean that both it's 32-bit and 64-bit 
modes should work?

That makes sense to me.  What about MIPS/MIPS64?

> Also move powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu or powerpc-linux-gnu to Primary if
> powerpc-aix is moving to secondary so we keep a PowerPC up as a primary
> target.

Definitely; I'd confused myself.

> > 5. Add i686-mingw32 as a secondary platform.

> Is i686-pc-cygwin just as important as mingw32 then?

I wonder if you mean to ask whether mingw32 is as important as Cygwin, 
or the other way around?

I think both are important, and about equally so.  Cygwin is widely used 
by people used to GNU software when running on Windows and has a very 
active community.  Windows (without Cygwin) is of course a widely-used 
operating system, and my perception is that a reasonable number of 
people are using GCC to build non-Cygwin Windows applications.  However, 
I have no hard data.

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