Re: current state of gcc-ia16?

[Andrew Jenner <andrew at codesourcery dot com>]

On 08/06/2018 12:43, Dennis Luehring wrote:
> > > is the patch already integrated into mainline?
> > No, it's not.
>
> will that ever happen?

Hard to say. There's no reason in principle why it couldn't happen, but 
there's not a big demand for it, so it would require someone taking the 
time and trouble to do it. It's not trivial, though - the current 
implementation has some middle-end changes which would need thinking 
through and doing properly to avoid polluting that code with ia16-isms.

I might update it and have another try at upstreaming it at some point 
if nobody else does it first, but I have too much else going on at the 
moment so it would likely be a year or two (maybe more) before I get to it.

Andrew