[patch] arch-status.html: New. (Take 6)

[Zack Weinberg]

Kazu Hirata <kazu@cs.umass.edu> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Here is a take 6 in html.  I renamed the file to backends.html, picked
> style.mhtml as a parent, and revised the intro as suggested by Janis.
>
> I also incorporated the suggestion from H-P about the desirable/common
> issue.
>
> I flipped most of the characteristics so that the table would be least
> dense.  One ugly thing is that L is flipped, whereas Q is not.

It might be a good idea to change the letters around, then -- they
were chosen to be at least vaguely mnemonic when having a letter was
the common/desirable case.

> +For criteria used to determine whether an architecture should be
> +obsoleted, the appearance of a letter is the common case and the
> +lack of a letter is the less common case.</p>

Other way around, no?


> +F       Floating point arithmetic is not supported
> +        (not necessarily by all implementations)
> +I       IEEE floating point is not supported
> +        (possibly with software assistance for full conformance)

The parentheticals are particularly confusing now.  Suggest instead

  F        Floating point arithmetic is not included in the instruction set
  I        Architecture does not use IEEE format floating point numbers

zw