This is the mail archive of the
gcc@gcc.gnu.org
mailing list for the GCC project.
Re: Beyond GCC 3.0: Summing Up
- To: dewar at gnat dot com, shebs at apple dot com
- Subject: Re: Beyond GCC 3.0: Summing Up
- From: dewar at gnat dot com
- Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 21:27:40 -0400 (EDT)
- Cc: espie at quatramaran dot ens dot fr, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, jbuck at synopsys dot com
<<A bunch, for instance Playstations 1 and 2. In fact, for some
embedded MIPS variants GCC is the only compiler available; the users
of those will be most unhappy to hear that they have to find a
company that will sell them a proprietary compiler, just because
MIPS support was deprecated or dropped from GCC.
>>
Sounds like the users (Sony?) should be willing to support the continued
development and maintenance of GCC on MIPS in this case. I see no
justification for them to be "most unhappy" if they are not providing
any resources. Alternatively they could provide people to maintain the
MIPS backend.