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Re: New target for Coldfire v4e?


>> >Your probably right, but the quicker that they are seen teh quicker
>> >they can be revamped into something acceptable to the mainline.
>> 
>> I'm also a fan of "release early, release often" and
>> "many eyes make all bugs shallow" (Linus).
>
>  I don't think that you should apply this to a compiler. You will get
>  big problems if your released compiler has ABI bugs. Fixing those
>  might be difficult.

The changes we're talking about do not affect the ABI, and are
local to the m68k/coldfire backend(except for adding a configuration
selector for --target=coldfire-*.

-- 
Peter Barada
peter@the-baradas.com


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