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Re: PROPOSAL: Policy for obsoleting targets
- From: Joel Sherrill <joel dot sherrill at OARcorp dot com>
- To: "E. Weddington" <eric at umginc dot net>
- Cc: zack at codesourcery dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 16:55:22 -0500
- Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: Policy for obsoleting targets
- Organization: OAR Corporation
- References: <3EC4DEF2.23920.4D92B94@localhost>
"E. Weddington" wrote:
>
> On 16 May 2003 at 12:33, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>
> <snip>
> > I decided to see how many targets which I thought had users would get
> > auto-deprecated by this policy. Here is a quick take of targets
> > which I did a search for in gcc-testresults. <sarcasm on> I am pretty
> > sure
> > that some of these have active users <sarcasm off>:
> <snip>
> > avr*-*-* - No reports
>
> I can attest that there have been over 9,000 downloads of the Windows hosted
> AVR cross alone. Then add in known AVR users on Linux and FreeBSD. The AVR
> target has an extremely active community.
>
> > I think this policy is probably OK for self-hosted environments but
> > raises the bar too high for embedded targets. I fairly regularly
> > report that at least the *-rtems and many of the embedded targets
> > without
> > simulators build. I know what you are trying to achieve but this
> > policy is too rough for embedded targets.
>
> I would certainly agree.
I wish I was replying to the right post but someone mentioned that
a list of supported target triples would be nice. I have to concur
on this one. It is often not easy to find the magic triple that
binutils, gcc, newlib, and gdb agree on.
> Eric Weddington
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