RFC: split ColdFire from m68k backend

[Gunther Nikl]

On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 05:51:57PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Peter Barada <peter@the-baradas.com> writes:
> 
> > As I've been working on the ColdFire backend more and more, I'm
> > starting to believe that it can benifit from being split off from the
> > m68k backend. This would allow m68k to maintain its current level of
> > stability while allowing a complete rewrite of the ColdFire backend to
> > bring it more in line with the other backends.

  Would separating ColdFire from m68k duplicate lots of code? Would it be
  possible to improve the current merged backend as-is?

> I wouldn't mind having a modernized m68k backend. :-)

  What things have to be changed to modernized the m68k backend?

  Gunther