Posts regarding deleting the VAX form of GCC from the next series

Christoph Hellwig hch@infradead.org
Mon Jun 21 20:34:00 GMT 2004


On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 04:31:15PM -0400, Gregg C Levine wrote:
> Hello from Gregg C Levine
> I am upset that the people who maintain the GCC compiler collection want to
> kill the VAX port.
> 
> This in my mind is a Bad Thing. There is indeed a free simulator for it,
> SIMH/vax. There are plenty of active machines out there, including those
> that run NetBSD/vax. We should not delete this port from the GCC series, and
> we should ressurrect the entire VAX series of ports going back to at least
> GCC 3.2.3.
> 
> Yes ELF support is on its way, no timeline for it, that I know of, but I
> think it might even be there.

So you're volunteering to maintain the port?  



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