Re: Proposed obsoletions

[Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw at lug-owl dot de>]

On Sun, 2005-06-05 12:41:43 -0400, Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com> wrote:

> * vax-*-bsd*
> * vax-*-sysv*
>   If anyone is still using these, GCC probably doesn't run already.  I
>   certainly haven't seen any test results.  Correct me if I'm wrong!
>   And after some staring, I think these are bad models for new ports.

vax-*-sysv* is probably dead. NetBSD using a.out most probably, too.
Though, vax-netbsdelf may be fine up. At least, I can get vax-linux (or
vax-elf) compiler (only adding some 5 lines for configury) that works
and produces a correctly working Linux kernel image (see eg.
http://www.pergamentum.com/pipermail/linux-vax/2005-May/000002.html).
So VAXens shape isn't most probably all that bad right now.

If you like, I'd submit the configury patch (by Kenn Humborg; copyright
assignment should be in place right now) and at least submit a gcc test
result for a i686-linux hosted vax-linux cross compiler. (But this
doesn't look all that good because we haven't yet integrated userland
support into gcc-HEAD nor an emulator to run tests on.)

But after all, work is done on the VAX target (and two patches in my
queue) in gcc as well as in binutils and there had been recent check-ins
in both of these.


As a side note: the uClibc folks do have a number of patches allowing
gcc to configure against *-uclibc. How is the acceptance of these
patches?

MfG, JBG

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