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Re: GCC support for PowerPC VLE

From: David Brown <david dot brown at hesbynett dot no>
To: William Swashbuckler <william dot swashbuckler at gmail dot com>
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2012 19:17:47 +0200
Subject: Re: GCC support for PowerPC VLE
References: <CADoS-hLY38kQi6zJGzwZJTN81hXDeqf0ibUQALYRCQbk5+uD_w@mail.gmail.com>

On 08/08/12 17:08, William Swashbuckler wrote:

Hi,
I have recently read in several places that GCC now supports the
PowerPC VLE instruction set architecture as a target. However, I have
so far been unable to find any actual documentation on this? AFAICS
the online doc doesn't show any new target options, see e.g.
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/RS_002f6000-and-PowerPC-Options.html

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thx

Where did you read about this? I talked to CodeSourcery (the main PowerPC gcc maintainers) a while back, and they said they had no plans to implement VLE - there simply wasn't enough market. That may have changed, however - Freescale's PowerPC microcontrollers are getting more popular outside their traditional market, and CodeSourcery's new parent company Mentor might see a future in VLE support. And of course, there may be some other company or contributor that has implemented VLE support outside of the main tree.

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