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Re: Obsoleting unmaintained targets
- From: Jim Wilson <wilson at specifixinc dot com>
- To: chewbaccathewookie at att dot net
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 17:14:17 -0800
- Subject: Re: Obsoleting unmaintained targets
- References: <120220032347.7501.2d73@att.net>
chewbaccathewookie@att.net wrote:
Hello from Gregg C Levine
Actually yes. I see a need for the Big Foot one, thats i370, and the Intel
i960. For example for the i960 I do have a processor here, been shopping for
a board for it, for a while now. As for the i370 one, isn't that the core
for building s/390 based kernel? There should be one for i390 instead then.
The i960 gcc port has been broken for about 3 and a half years now, and
the gdb support has already been deleted. Maintaining a compiler port
is a lot of work. It isn't practical for us to maintain the port for
one person who has one processor. You can try using a gcc-2.x compiler
for i960 work. It should work fine. It just won't have all of the new
gcc features. There are also binaries for a modified gcc toolchain
available for download from the Intel web site. (Or at least there used
to be.)
There are i370 and s390 ports. The i370 has been unmaintained for a
long time. The s390 port is the one that is used to build the s390
toolchains. It is not affected by this change.
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Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.SpecifixInc.com