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Re: S/390 as GCC 4.3 secondary plattform?
- From: Laurent GUERBY <laurent at guerby dot net>
- To: Andreas Krebbel <krebbel1 at de dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: mark at codesourcery dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Ulrich dot Weigand at de dot ibm dot com, gellerich at de dot ibm dot com
- Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 15:12:00 +0200
- Subject: Re: S/390 as GCC 4.3 secondary plattform?
- References: <20060929165340.GA5605@(none)>
BTW thanks to the S/390 GCC team for taking the time to identify, report
and sometimes fix Ada-language related bugs on their platform.
Laurent
On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 18:53 +0200, Andreas Krebbel wrote:
> Hello Mark,
>
> sorry for tuning in so late to the GCC 4.3 primary/secondary
> plattform discussion.
>
> As you probably expect I'll give a vote for s390-ibm-linux-gnu
> and s390x-ibm-linux-gnu to be marked as gcc secondary plattforms.
>
> I think the s390 back end is in a pretty good shape. The languages
> c,ada,c++,fortran,java,objc and obj-c++ bootstrap fine and are tested
> regularly. I've set up a gcc daily build posting the testresults of the
> last 3 gcc branches every day.
>
> We have a competent maintainer - Ulrich Weigand and 2 developers at IBM
> (Wolfgang Gellerich and myself) who are able to spent at least a good part
> of their time working on the S/390 back-end fixing bugs,
> developing new features and providing support of new cpus.
>
> In the criteria for primary plattforms I've read that primary plattforms
> have to be "popular systems". Reading this as "widely used" I think that
> this will be a requirement which mainframes are unlikely to meet in the
> near future, so I propose to make s390 and s390x secondary plattforms for
> now. I think this can be important to show users that gcc works reliably on
> S/390 and that it can be expected to do so in the future as well.
>
> Bye,
>
> -Andreas-
>