Re: GCC 3.0 Release Criteria and PPC Linux support

["Kevin B. Hendricks" <khendricks at ivey dot uwo dot ca>]

Hi,

>Open Issues
>The following issues are as of yet unresolved:

>       Should we add PowerPC Linux to the list of platforms?


Since I did not see Franz reply to this, please let me add my two cents
(representing a reasonable user-base size of PPC Linux users) and request
strongly that  PowerPC Linux be added to the list of supported platforms
for GCC 3.0.

- PowerPC linux relies completely on the gcc compilers \
  (and have since the beginning)

- There is a reasonbly large user base that relies on it

- No other compiler exists for this platform.

- There has been support for PowerPC Linux in all of the egcs and gcc
  releases to date

- Franz Sirl has been actively supporting that platform  for the gcc project
  (with the help of Geoff and Richard and David)

- PPC is officially supported in the linux kernel, glibc 2.1.X, the
  binutils, gdb (just now), the blackdown jdk, etc.


I am certainly no compiler expert but I will be willing to offer my
services to Franz or whomever to help see to it that all needed builds and
testing are being done.  I am sure SuSE, Mandrake, YellowDog Linux,
MkLinux, Caldera and others with PPC Linux distributions (either existing,
in beta or in development) would/could provide some help if need be.


Thank you.

Kevin





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