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Re: GCC 4.3 target deprecation proposals
- From: "John David Anglin" <dave at hiauly1 dot hia dot nrc dot ca>
- To: bonzini at gnu dot org (Paolo Bonzini)
- Cc: nightstrike at gmail dot com, joseph at codesourcery dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, liqin at sunnorth dot com dot cn, dave dot anglin at nrc dot ca, matt at 3am-software dot com, joern dot rennecke at arc dot com, m dot hayes at elec dot canterbury dot ac dot nz, nickc at redhat dot com, aldyh at redhat dot com, nathan at codesourcery dot com, ni1d at arrl dot net, geoffk at geoffk dot org, paul dot woegerer at nsc dot com
- Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:12:59 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: GCC 4.3 target deprecation proposals
> Neither, actually. It's tester base that counts the most.
I had a discussion with Jan-Benedict Glaw last night about this. He
has been working on a linux port. He said:
> The damn thing is that we need a working kernel + userland. Irrelevant
> of the actual operating system. Maybe it would be better to start
> looking at NetBSD in depth to get it up'n'running in a SIMH instance
> and test GCC with it.
>From the reports I have, the vax port still builds and the amount of
rot is limited at this time. Matt has a big patch to add PIC support.
Dave
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