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Re: what are the "primary targets" for GCC?
Steven Bosscher <stevenb@suse.de> wrote:
>> I see lots of references to some targets being the "primary targets"
(which
>> I assume means that those backends are the ones the GCC folk consider the
>> most important) but which targets are these?
> There are no documented GCC 4.0.0 Release Criteria yet, and I don't
> know who is responsible for proposing the criteria and approving them.
> Until somebody proposes something I suppose the "primary targets" are
> just those which are the most important historically or from the point
> of view of the majority of the contributors (x86*-linux, MIPS, HPPA,
> powerpc*, HPPA, maybe Alpha, maybe ARM, at least one *BSD target, ...).
I asked the SC a clarification on the release criteria for 4.x here:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-10/msg01229.html
but got no answer.
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Giovanni Bajo