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Re: patch/proposal: obsolete configurations in 3.1
- From: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp at bitrange dot com>
- To: Daniel Egger <degger at fhm dot edu>
- Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem at redhat dot com>, <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 15:13:52 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: patch/proposal: obsolete configurations in 3.1
On 15 Apr 2002, Daniel Egger wrote:
> Am Mon, 2002-04-15 um 16.57 schrieb David S. Miller:
>
> > I'll go out on a limb and say that there are probably more people
> > using the PDP10 stuff than MMIX. :-)
>
> I doubt it. In faculties CS students will always have to learn different
> types of assembly and in most cases x86 and growingly MMIX are the
> languages of choice. Whether a compiler for such a theoretical machine
> is really useful is a different matter though I can imagine that using
> MMIX and the pipeline simulator might become a useful tool for gcc
> performance testing.
Patches for MMIX scheduling are welcome. ;-)
Exercise 1: Fix descriptions for Knuth's predefined plain and
deluxe *.mmconfig configurations.
Exercise 2: Script that at gcc build time reads a *.mmconfig and
creates an included .md fragment, plus config machinery.
Exercise 3: Runtime configuration: mmix-gcc -mmconfig=something.mmconfig
(Every change supposedly backed up by performance figures.)
Something for projects/beginner.html perhaps.
brgds, H-P