[Offtopic:] Last status of 1750a port (Was Re: NEC 78400 (78K.IV))

[Hans-Peter Nilsson <hans-peter dot nilsson at axis dot com>]

One more piece on this target, before it gets back to rest.
 Summary of an email-dialog with Chris Nettleton
(I introduced myself as a self-proclaimed messenger, so
summarizing should be OK):
 The "m1750" as they call their target, is certainly *based* on
the "1750a" target, but now renamed to coexist with the
inactive 1750a -- so you *were* right Jeff, and I shouldn't be
such a nitpick ;-)

The information at the ESA URL is outdated; the target
(version 1.1) is now branched from gcc-2.8.1.  There are no
immediate plans for merging or working with egcs or gcc2, since
they do not see any significant immediate benefit.
(Very conservative customers, no C++-needs -- think of it).
 He claimed that due to peculiarities with their port -- he
actually mentioned the 16-bit specifics :-( they had to do
"several front end changes", making a merge with egcs or gcc2
problematic.

(Of course this may or may be outdated information for egcs; my
(under?)educated guess is that some or all of the problems are
"Pmode/SImode"-related problems that some 64-bit targets ran
into long-but-not-too-long ago and that are already solved).

brgds, H-P