From: Jeff Law <jeffreyalaw@gmail.com>
To: Paul Koning <paulkoning@comcast.net>
Cc: Richard Biener <richard.guenther@gmail.com>,
Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>,
Joern Rennecke <gnu@amylaar.uk>,
gcc@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [committed] PATCH for Re: Stepping down as maintainer for ARC and Epiphany
Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 10:21:37 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <12d4646e-6af3-4c2d-ade1-2ec06cf08551@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E0EEC21B-8EB8-49CF-8613-0962B1E5DA1C@comcast.net>
On 5/21/24 8:02 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
>
>
>> On May 21, 2024, at 9:57 AM, Jeff Law <jeffreyalaw@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On 5/21/24 12:05 AM, Richard Biener via Gcc wrote:
>>> On Mon, May 20, 2024 at 4:45 PM Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, 5 Jul 2023, Joern Rennecke wrote:
>>>>> I haven't worked with these targets in years and can't really do
>>>>> sensible maintenance or reviews of patches for them. I am currently
>>>>> working on optimizations for other ports like RISC-V.
>>>>
>>>> I noticed MAINTAINERS was not updated, so pushed the patch below.
>>> That leaves the epiphany port unmaintained. Should we automatically add such
>>> ports to the list of obsoleted ports?
>> Given that epiphany has randomly failed tests for the last 3+ years due to bugs in its patterns, yes, it really needs to be deprecated.
>>
>> I tried to fix the worst of the offenders in epiphany.md a few years back and gave up. Essentially seemingly innocent changes in the RTL will cause reload to occasionally not see a path to get constraints satisfied. So a test which passes today, will flip to failing tomorrow while some other test of tests will go the other way.
>
> Does LRA make that issue go away, or does it not help?
LRA didn't trivially work on epiphany. I didn't care enough about the
port to try and make it LRA compatible.
jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-05-21 16:21 UTC|newest]
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2023-07-06 6:17 ` Richard Biener
2023-07-07 0:37 ` Jeff Law
2024-05-20 14:44 ` [committed] PATCH for " Gerald Pfeifer
2024-05-21 6:05 ` Richard Biener
2024-05-21 13:57 ` Jeff Law
2024-05-21 14:02 ` Paul Koning
2024-05-21 16:21 ` Jeff Law [this message]
2024-05-21 16:43 ` Richard Biener
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