Re: New port contribution - picoChip

["Giovanni Bajo" <rasky at develer dot com>]

Daniel Towner <daniel.towner@picochip.com> wrote:

> The linker and assembler used by the port are proprietary, and can't
> be made publicly available at this point. The port will have to be
> assembler output only.

I suppose this means that nobody but you will ever be able to run/test your
backend. If you are fine with this, I don't think anybody will object.

> Custom test procedures are used, which don't currently work with
> DejaGNU. This will be fixed at some point.

Are you still able to produce mails which resemble the DejaGNU output (for
gcc-testresults@ mailing list)? It is common to watch status reports in that
mailing list to understand "how much live" a port is. I suggest you to
regurarly post reports to show that the port is not bitrotting.

You will also have to officially volunteer to be the maintainer of the port.
I suppose this was implicit in your mail.

I suggest you to double check also the list present in this mail:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-06/msg01625.html

This was never publically approved, but it reflects views of many GCC
maintainers. Surely it does not hurt to follow those guidelines, even if
they are (yet) not showstoppers for a backend inclusion.
-- 
Giovanni Bajo