New target for Coldfire v4e?

Richard Henderson rth@redhat.com
Sun Dec 19 00:14:00 GMT 2004


On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 09:28:40AM -0500, Peter Barada wrote:
> The changes we're talking about do not affect the ABI, and are
> local to the m68k/coldfire backend(except for adding a configuration
> selector for --target=coldfire-*.

What do you hope to gain by splitting coldfire out?

Yes, the m68k port could stand to be rewritten from scratch, but
it seems to me that the differential in difficulty between writing
a new port for coldfire and a new port for m68k+coldfire is small.


r~



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