From: David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com>
To: Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: It's target deprecation season again!
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 00:52:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200210190146.VAA28592@makai.watson.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com> of "Fri, 18 Oct 2002 16:05:08 PDT." <20021018230508.GA24290@codesourcery.com>
>>>>> Zack Weinberg writes:
Zack> The i370 and s390 targets are for the same architecture. They are not
Zack> entirely redundant; each supports operating environments that the
Zack> other doesn't. However, the s390 target is actively maintained, the
Zack> i370 isn't, and HOST_EBCDIC doesn't really work. I would like to
Zack> suggest, therefore, that we drop (a) the i370, and (b) any pretense of
Zack> supporting EBCDIC as the primary character encoding for the host. (It
Zack> is much, much easier to support it in the target.)
The i370 port still is used for z/OS (aka OS/390 aka MVS) Unix
System Services. I am not sure which port was used as the basis for the
TPF work which eventually should be merged into the FSF sources.
Zack> rs6000-ibm-aix[123]*
Zack> rs6000-ibm-aix4* # maybe
Huh? It takes incrementally minimal effort to keep older AIX
configurations around and AIX 4.3 still is in wide-spread use.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-19 1:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-18 17:29 Zack Weinberg
2002-10-18 18:51 ` Joseph S. Myers
2002-10-18 19:40 ` H. J. Lu
2002-10-19 9:46 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2002-10-18 19:01 ` Jason R Thorpe
2002-10-18 20:22 ` Zack Weinberg
2002-10-18 19:03 ` Mike Stump
2002-10-20 21:49 ` Joel Sherrill
2002-10-19 0:52 ` David Edelsohn [this message]
2002-10-19 7:30 ` Russ Allbery
2002-10-19 10:54 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2002-10-20 10:30 ` Janis Johnson
2002-10-21 1:22 ` Mark Mitchell
2002-11-01 21:02 ` David O'Brien
2002-11-02 2:05 ` Zack Weinberg
2002-11-02 18:59 ` David O'Brien
2002-11-05 22:03 ` Adam Nemet
2002-11-06 5:33 ` Roman Leshchinskiy
2002-10-21 6:59 Robert Dewar
2002-10-21 7:59 ` Mark Mitchell
2002-10-21 15:35 Joern Rennecke
2002-10-21 16:17 ` DJ Delorie
2002-10-21 16:22 ` Joern Rennecke
2002-10-23 9:53 ` Ralf Corsepius
2002-10-23 9:57 Unruh, Erwin
2002-10-23 17:14 ` Neil Booth
2002-10-23 18:12 ` DJ Delorie
2002-11-02 14:44 John David Anglin
2002-11-06 19:22 ` Jason R Thorpe
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