C54x port: some general technical questions

[Paul Koning]

>>>>> "James" == James E Wilson <James> writes:

 James> On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 06:00, Paul Koning wrote:
 >> I wonder if the work-in-progress PDP10 port
 >> (http://pdp10.nocrew.org/gcc/) might help with this.

 James> Interesting, but a hobbyist port for a 36-bit machine that was
 James> end-of-lifed about 2 decades ago has little chance of success,
 James> unless there are some very dedicated volunteers willing to
 James> maintain it and champion it.  That doesn't seem to be the
 James> case, as the web site hasn't been updated in 2 years, and the
 James> NetBSD port seems to have been dormant for 2 years.

 James> There are also possible copyright assignment issues here.  Do
 James> we know if all of the contributors have valid copyright
 James> assignment papers?  If not, then it isn't safe to borrow any
 James> code from there. 

True.  FWIW, I know that both the PDP10 and the PDP11 target support
in binutils were contributed by that gentleman.

By the way, I don't believe that "hobbyist port" is a correct
characterization of the pdp10 port work.

   paul