Re: GCC 4.3 Platform List

[David Gressett <jdgressett at amli-denton dot com>]

Mark Mitchell wrote:
> 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.
$0.02 from a user - I routinely use the MinGW gcc stuff, mostly the Ada 
compiler, in a production environment where I work. I'd love to see 
i686-mingw32 get more attention.