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Re: Beyond GCC 3.0: Summing Up
- To: espie at quatramaran dot ens dot fr (Marc Espie)
- Subject: Re: Beyond GCC 3.0: Summing Up
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot COM>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 13:49:08 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: jbuck at synopsys dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
> >OK, we should define a list of platforms we care about. gcc has
> >(bitrotted) support for processors that no longer exist.
>
> Mips does still exist, barely. Vax does as well.
mips is still an important platform for embedded systems, same with m68k.
vax is only of historical interest (sorry, vax fans).
> The things that are killing
> those is the increasing amount of bugs in gcc releases. Likewise for m68k,
> but less so (and lack of knowledgeable people to fix those bugs, along
> with the very time consuming nature of building gcc on a somewhat slow
> machine...)
For embedded users, cross-compilation is what they are interested in.