Obsoleting ports

[Ramana Radhakrishnan]

Hi Kazu, 

> arc comes up often every time we discuss obsoleting ports, but it
> never went away.

My current employer Codito Technologies (www.codito.com) currently
partners with ARC towards providing GNU Tools on the ARC platform.Our
patches currently take a little while to get accepted because there is
no official maintainer for the ARC port.

I am currently working on finding the issues with the A4 port in the
main stream and a couple of my bug reports and patches (currently
trivial because I am more concerned about a working set up for the
testsuite) are targeted towards that.

Currently I am at a stage where I have built the tools for the gcc 3.4 branch

Tools used                  : 
gcc 3.4 branch (cvs head 8th October 2004)  : with patches for PR17317
and PR17889.(not yet committed)
binutils                        : head    ( 8th October) : with 1 patch 
newlib 1.12.0 / libgloss : (with a few patches for the interlink with
a simulator)



regards
Ramana

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Ramana Radhakrishnan
GNU Tools
Codito Technologies.