Re: [PATCH 0/9] New back end ia16: 16-bit Intel x86

[Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>]

On 04/01/2017 10:47 AM, Andrew Jenner wrote:
> About 10 years ago, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen sent a patch series to add
> a 16-bit x86 (i.e. 8088, 8086, 80186 and 80286 CPUs) back end. This work
> was never committed. Recently I've been doing some work on this back
> end, and today we released a Sourcery CodeBench Lite distribution based
> on it (see
> https://blogs.mentor.com/embedded/blog/2017/04/01/announcing-sourcery-codebench-lite-for-ia16/
> ). Given this, I thought it would be a good idea to send these patches
> upstream today (though obviously if I commit these it won't be until
> we're in Stage 1 and more testing has been done on the middle-end changes).
>
> I have not been able to contact Rask Ingemann Lambertsen, but he does
> have a copyright assignment for GCC on file (dated 2006-11-16) so I do
> not believe there are any copyright assignment issues that would block
> this.
Note that with the trunk in stage4 and a release rapidly approaching, 
it's unlikely that anyone will be looking in depth at this until after 
the release branch is cut.

jeff