From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7077 invoked by alias); 2 Dec 2004 13:37:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 6230 invoked from network); 2 Dec 2004 13:36:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO develer.com) (151.38.19.110) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 2 Dec 2004 13:36:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 30404 invoked from network); 2 Dec 2004 13:36:23 -0000 Received: from mimas.trilan (HELO mimas) (10.3.3.245) by trinity.trilan with SMTP; 2 Dec 2004 13:36:23 -0000 Message-ID: <033f01c4d873$e969f310$f503030a@mimas> From: "Giovanni Bajo" To: "Steven Bosscher" Cc: References: <41AF09C3.4050504@tpgi.com.au> <7889542.1101992254266.SLOX.WebMail.wwwrun@extimap.suse.de> Subject: Re: what are the "primary targets" for GCC? Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 13:37:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-12/txt/msg00123.txt.bz2 Steven Bosscher wrote: >> I see lots of references to some targets being the "primary targets" (which >> I assume means that those backends are the ones the GCC folk consider the >> most important) but which targets are these? > There are no documented GCC 4.0.0 Release Criteria yet, and I don't > know who is responsible for proposing the criteria and approving them. > Until somebody proposes something I suppose the "primary targets" are > just those which are the most important historically or from the point > of view of the majority of the contributors (x86*-linux, MIPS, HPPA, > powerpc*, HPPA, maybe Alpha, maybe ARM, at least one *BSD target, ...). I asked the SC a clarification on the release criteria for 4.x here: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-10/msg01229.html but got no answer. -- Giovanni Bajo