Getting the ARC port reviewed and accepted

[Jeremy Bennett <jeremy dot bennett at embecosm dot com>]

Hi all,

You've probably seen that Joern Rennecke (amylaar) has been pinging 
repeatedly for help reviewing the ARC port:

  http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2013-09/msg02072.html

Joern is approved as a maintainer, and the tests have been reviewed and 
approved (thanks to Mike Stump). However approximately a year since the 
original submission, after making various changes suggested at that 
time, the port itself still awaits review of acceptance.

We are in the curious position of a port that has a maintainer and 
testsuite accepted, but no actual port.

What can we do to move this to completion for 4.9 stage 1? It is not the 
smallest port (the ARC is a complex reconfigurable processor family), 
but it has been in use for a long time, causes no regression errors in 
other targets, and has been submitted by a long-standing contributor to GCC.

Advice on how to move this forward much appreciated.

Thanks,


Jeremy Bennett

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