Re: List of Supported Platforms (was: GCC 3.0 Release Criteria)

[Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>]

On Mon, 8 May 2000, Martin v. Loewis wrote:
> We already have
> 
> http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/buildstat.html
> 
> for the list of platforms that people think the compiler works on.  I
> wanted to create a list of platforms with email addresses to contact
> when users have problems. We cannot provide that kind of support for
> all platforms, but I think we'll find volunteers to contact for
> platform-specific problems for some of them.

I agree that this is something different.

In a sense, we have
 a) contributed (and accepted) platforms, i.e., those that are in CVS
    Some of these are quite "dead", as far as I understand.
 b) platforms we use for testing releases (cf. Mark's page)
 c) actively maintained platforms

b) and c) (as least as far as we are concerned) are subsets of a).

a) and b) are documented, but c) is not. And I agree that having a list
for c) together with e-mail addresses of maintainers etc. would be nice.

There is some overlap with the MAINTAINERS file, yet it's different on
the one hand and more detail on the other hand, and I think it might be
useful.

Gerald
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