From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18857 invoked by alias); 7 Feb 2005 17:26:41 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cgen-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cgen-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 18602 invoked from network); 7 Feb 2005 17:26:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 7 Feb 2005 17:26:31 -0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j17GOHfJ029962 for ; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 11:24:17 -0500 Received: from pobox.toronto.redhat.com (pobox.toronto.redhat.com [172.16.14.4]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j17GOBO20884; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 11:24:12 -0500 Received: from touchme.toronto.redhat.com (IDENT:postfix@touchme.toronto.redhat.com [172.16.14.9]) by pobox.toronto.redhat.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j17GOB7l015066; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 11:24:11 -0500 Received: from toenail.toronto.redhat.com (toenail.toronto.redhat.com [172.16.14.211]) by touchme.toronto.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AE08800001; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 11:24:11 -0500 (EST) Received: from toenail.toronto.redhat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by toenail.toronto.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.12.5) with ESMTP id j17GOAxA020977; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 11:24:11 -0500 Received: (from fche@localhost) by toenail.toronto.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j17GO9HO020956; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 11:24:10 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: toenail.toronto.redhat.com: fche set sender to fche@redhat.com using -f To: Miles Bader Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, cgen@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: cgen? References: X-Hashcash: 1:20:050207:miles@gnu.org::HZiVf7J90a6O85hg:00003y7a X-Hashcash: 1:20:050207:gcc@gcc.gnu.org::yvrdK1AAgeoR027l:000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000048Br X-Hashcash: 1:20:050207:cgen@sources.redhat.com::egdmeSJN2WVTgTNS:0000000000000000000000000000000000000062WL From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler) Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 17:26:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2005-q1/txt/msg00020.txt.bz2 Miles Bader writes: > I'm going to write GNU toolchain support (binutils/gas/gcc) for a > new micro-controller processor arch, and I'd like to know if it's > recommended these days to use "cgen" or not for the binutils/gas > bits, as opposed to just rolling everything by hand. [...] This is not very relevant to gcc, in that cgen has no (public) gcc-related porting backend. It helps build assemblers and simulators. It is pretty stable and has a user base (including various Red Hat porting contracts). - FChE