ports to 2.96 and 3.1 versions

[mike stump]

> From: "Marko Mlinar" <markom@opencores.org>
> To: <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 16:09:23 +0100

> I am a member of OpenCores (http://www.opencores.org) an open HW
> community.

I like what you guys are doing, thanks for your hard work.

> We have whole GNU toolchain ready for our CPU (OpenRisc), but we are
> still waiting for FSF licenses, to make our ports official.

I assume this means that you are trying to submit your paper work to
the FSF for the copyright assignments.  The paper work isn't enough to
make the ports official.  After you have your copyright assignments on
file, this permits you to submit your work to us for inclusion into
gcc.  After the inclusion of your work into the main gcc tree, this
makes it official.  After the release of the code, it then is part of
an official release of gcc.

> For gcc, we have two ports 2.96 and 3.1 (todays version).

2.96 has no planned release by us and likely will not be released by
us.

> When do you expect current version of gcc will be included in
> official releases of GNU software?

See http://gcc.gnu.org/develop.html, according to it, our best guess
is Apr 15th, 2002 for the release of gcc 3.1.

> Since current gcc is not so widely spread yet, and if that is not
> likely to change soon, we would like make an official port to gcc
> version 2 also (if that is possible, of course).

You are free to do a port to any gcc 2.x compiler and put that up on
your web site, but it is very unlikely that we will make such a
release.