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Re: Status of the DLX backend for GCC?
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>
- To: Peter Bergner <bergner at vnet dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Nikolaos Kavvadias <nkavv at physics dot auth dot gr>
- Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 18:48:59 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: Status of the DLX backend for GCC?
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712301009390.3758@acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> <1199486240.9514.4.camel@otta>
[ Oops, somehow I had missed this... ]
On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Peter Bergner wrote:
>> At http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/extensions.html we have a reference
>> to the DLX port of GCC, which corresponds to the DLX machine described
>> in "Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach" by Hennessy and
>> Patterson.
>>
>> Sadly, the link to http://www-mount.ee.umn.edu/~okeefe/mcerg/gcc-dlx.html
>> doesn't work and I failed to find a replacement page. Any pointers?
> What is it exactly you're looking for on that page? That web page was
> from my old research group, so if there's something in particular you're
> looking for, I can try poking some of the people to see whether they
> still have the files. FYI, Aaron Sawdey who now works for IBM doing
> performance work wrote that GCC-DLX port.
>
> I'll note that Matt O'keefe who was our research advisor no longer works
> at the University of Minnesota so that's why the pages no longer work.
Thanks for the background on this, Peter, and the background on this
site disappearing.
The reason I asked was that we have that reference from our site to that
URL and I failed to find any replacement so far. The first two hits that
I get in Google actually are mails by you in the gcc archives. ;-)
I guess we'll just have to remove that reference?
Gerald