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Re: Request to move config/rs6000 to config/powerpc
- To: obrien at FreeBSD dot org
- Subject: Re: Request to move config/rs6000 to config/powerpc
- From: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 14:51:23 -0500
- cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
>>>>> "David O'Brien" writes:
David> The files in gcc/config/rs6000 certainly are getting away from what one
David> would assume by "rs6000" and what that platform is. Can a generic
David> gcc/config/powerpc directory be created and at least the darwin and other
David> embedded powerpc bits moved/copied there?
The configuration historically has been called "rs6000" because
that is what RMS required. The configuration truly is not "powerpc"
either because of the AIX POWER architecture support. "rs6000" is not an
architecture, but it does encompass all of the variations more than other
names (such as another suggestion of "pwrppc").
This has been discussed for close to a decade now and the result
always is to stick with the historic precedent.
David