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Re: S/390 as GCC 4.3 secondary plattform?
- From: Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz at redhat dot com>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:10:34 +0200
- Subject: Re: S/390 as GCC 4.3 secondary plattform?
> Another, technical, reason to consider the s390x to be a primary
> platform is that it is a different 64-bit big-endian target.
>
> I always watch the test-result outcomes for gfortran of s390x closely -
> it's too easy to mess things up using little-endian.
Same here. In C++ land it also has many of the std::numeric limits
properties of alpha.
Regardless of what happens with 4.3, I think the reality is that s/390
has been one of the better supported platforms for gcc since at least
3.2.x. The maintainers are very responsive and gcc-testresults is
updated on a daily basis for multiple machine configs (390, 390x).
IMHO this is the kind of behavior we as a group want to encourage.
-benjamin