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Re: Add Ada support for aarch64-*-freebsd*
> I was pointing out that on gcc-6, aarch64-linux is using x86-64
> system file too. Since I used gcc-6 for the original testing on
> freebsd, that's where it came from. It's been changed on trunk, but
> nobody backported those changes to gcc-6. It was obviously "good
> enough" and a "placeholder" as indicated in the nearby comment.
Well, that's a bad practice that we want to fix rather than copy :-)
> If you want, I can create a duplicate file with a different name.
> Or I can add a "placeholder" comment like we see on aarch64-linux.
> Adding a new system file would not change the end result but if you
> like it more, I'll submit a new patch that creates this new system
> file.
Given that the more recent trend is to merge more these system files
as opposed to systematically breaking them, I'd recommend renaming the
file to system-freedbsd and change the definition of Default_Bit_Order
which will be needed sooner or later in any case (if not already).
Arno