From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 53012 invoked by alias); 3 Apr 2017 15:26:20 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-patches-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-patches-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 52985 invoked by uid 89); 3 Apr 2017 15:26:19 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=rapidly X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 03 Apr 2017 15:26:18 +0000 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx05.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.15]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 031C33DBF1; Mon, 3 Apr 2017 15:26:18 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mx1.redhat.com 031C33DBF1 Authentication-Results: ext-mx06.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=redhat.com Authentication-Results: ext-mx06.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=law@redhat.com DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 mx1.redhat.com 031C33DBF1 Received: from localhost.localdomain (ovpn-116-213.phx2.redhat.com [10.3.116.213]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9434F91D05; Mon, 3 Apr 2017 15:26:16 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] New back end ia16: 16-bit Intel x86 To: Andrew Jenner , GCC Patches References: <1633e4a5-dc7f-4a75-e431-9539c549cca7@codesourcery.com> From: Jeff Law Message-ID: Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2017 15:26:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1633e4a5-dc7f-4a75-e431-9539c549cca7@codesourcery.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-04/txt/msg00082.txt.bz2 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