Re: GCC 4.3 target deprecation proposals

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

On Mon, 2008-01-21 22:55:26 -0800, Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com> wrote:
> On Jan 21, 2008, at 3:01 PM, Ben Elliston wrote:
> > My understanding is that NetBSD port to the vax is very much alive and
> > maintained.  Thus, I expect that those users (eg Matt Thomas) would  
> > like
> > to see the GCC port retained.
> 
> We would.  I have gcc working with gcc4.3 but gcc's use mpfr/gmp has  
> made
> native test impossible since neither work on vax/elf.  I don't have time
> to make them work.

I do have a crude patch to ELFify the assembly parts. However,
upstream told me that it wouldn't be accepted since it would break
older setups and that M4 magic should be used to sort out the %
story...

I was able to canadian-build a target=host vax-linux-uclibc compiler with
that (plus linux-specific patches) using a i686-linux-gnu build
machine.

MfG, JBG

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