Re: Please don't deprecate i386 for GCC 4.8

[Robert Dewar <dewar at adacore dot com>]

On 12/15/2012 12:32 PM, Cynthia Rempel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the fast response!
>
> So to keep an architecture supported by GCC, we would need to:
>
> Three or more times a year preferably either during OR after
> "stage3"
>
> 1. use the SVN version of gcc, 2. patch with an RTEMS patch, 3. use
> ./contrib/test_summary and pipe the output to a shell. 4. Report the
> testresults to gcc-patches.
>
> Would this be sufficient to maintain support for an architecture?  As
> far as support goes, I rebuild RTEMS quite often, so once I
> understand how to run the tests I don't mind doing so for the x86
> architectures. If running the test script is all that's required, I
> can do that.

Well of course it would always be appreciated if you can jump in
and help sort out problems that are 386 specific (hopefully there
won't be any!)