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Re: PowerPC SPE maintainership (was Re: Obsolete powerpc*-*-*spe*)
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Segher Boessenkool <segher at kernel dot crashing dot org>
- Cc: Andrew Jenner <andrew at codesourcery dot com>, David Edelsohn <dje dot gcc at gmail dot com>, GCC Development <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Olivier Hainque <hainque at adacore dot com>, Sandra Loosemore <sandra at codesourcery dot com>, Arnaud Charlet <charlet at adacore dot com>, Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- Date: Mon, 1 May 2017 11:30:59 +0000
- Subject: Re: PowerPC SPE maintainership (was Re: Obsolete powerpc*-*-*spe*)
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On Mon, 1 May 2017, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> My current patches have powerpc*-*-*spe* for the powerpcspe port.
> Maybe it should also allow powerpcspe-*-*? If people are willing
> to change the target triple they use.
In that case, either config.sub or config.gcc could handle the mapping.
> > Some testcases will be applicable to both ports, some to only one.
>
> Yeah; but we can sort that out later, no change is needed as long as
> the new port is essentially a copy of rs6000 :-)
Presumably the SPE port maintainers will want to clean up the SPE port
soon so it's not simply a copy of rs6000 (removing all the options, ABI
variants etc. not applicable to SPE-supporting processors).
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com