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Re: Secondary platform change request
- From: Kai Tietz <ktietz70 at googlemail dot com>
- To: Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Wolf <lailavrazda1979 at gmail dot com>, gcc Mailing List <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 17:37:20 +0200
- Subject: Re: Secondary platform change request
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2014-05-01 17:23 GMT+02:00 Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>:
> On 04/30/14 21:56, Wolf wrote:
>>
>> Since the original MinGW refuses to support 64-bit, I would like to
>> discuss whether we should remove i686-mingw32 from the secondary
>> platforms list and replace it with MinGW-w64.
>
> Kai should probably chime in here with his recommendation on the technical
> side. If/when Kai thinks this is appropriate on the pure technical merits,
> then I'm more than happy to propose the change to the steering committee for
> the next major GCC release.
>
> jeff
Well, from my POV we should do two things for next major release.
First, we should add x86_64 cygwin target to the list of secondary
targets. And also i?86/x86_64-*-mingw* targets.
It is true that mingw-w64's toolchain supports 32-bit and 64-bit IAs.
Additionally it is working right now to add support for ARM
architectures (v7 and v8). Patches for this will reach gcc/binutils
soon.
It is right that we don't have an active contributors/maintainers of
side of mingw.org anymore. All active development and contributions
in this area are done right now from mingw-w64's communtiy AFAICS.
All windows targets (cygwin & mingw) are right now maintained by me as
other maintainers for these targets seems to be MIA. So naturally I
would vote to add here instead of mingw.org the mingw-w64 toolchain.
Kai