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How to fix the mips port?

To: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot COM>
Subject: How to fix the mips port?
From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 13:55:29 -0700
Cc: Marc Espie <espie at quatramaran dot ens dot fr>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
References: <20010710134717.B24102@lucon.org> <200107102050.NAA21718@racerx.synopsys.com>

On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 01:50:07PM -0700, Joe Buck wrote:
> 
> > > Mips does still exist, barely. Vax does as well. The things that are killing
> > 
> > FWIW, my mips compiler is as good as my ia32 compiler on RedHat 7.1.
> 
> Unfortunately we have no mips maintainer and the mips port needs work;
> it's blocking changes Bernd wants to make.

How hard to fix the mips backend? Why mips is so different from
others? I know some mips vendors provide the modified gcc based
on very old versions of gcc. Will they be interested in taking
over the mips port?

H.J.

References:
- Re: Beyond GCC 3.0: Summing Up
  - From: H . J . Lu
- Re: Beyond GCC 3.0: Summing Up
  - From: Joe Buck

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