Beyond GCC 3.0: Summing Up

[Geoff Keating]

jlarmour@redhat.com (Jonathan Larmour) writes:

> In article < 337540000.994743670@warlock.codesourcery.com > you write:
> >But, we should minimize that by the other
> >part of my proposal that required three build/test platforms for
> >changes that are big.
> 
> This raises the bar for amateur developers. This will effectively
> mean that only corps like e.g. Codesourcery, Red Hat or ACT
> can contribute major changes. Amateur developers such as those in
> universities who rely on resources beyond their control may simply
> not *have* three platforms.

If a contributor only has one platform, it would be OK to test on that
platform and two embedded targets with simulators.  Most 
optimiser bugs would be caught by, say, i386-linux bootstrap,
i386-linux cross to powerpc-eabisim, i386-linux cross to mips64el-elf.

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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>