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* Obsolete mn10200?
@ 2004-03-01  2:40 William Reading
  2004-03-01  5:12 ` law
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From: William Reading @ 2004-03-01  2:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: gcc

Howdy,

I was curious as to what would be required to keep this from becoming 
obsoleted.

Regards,
William Reading

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* Re: Obsolete mn10200?
  2004-03-01  2:40 Obsolete mn10200? William Reading
@ 2004-03-01  5:12 ` law
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: law @ 2004-03-01  5:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: William Reading; +Cc: gcc

In message <B1899C32-6B29-11D8-876E-000393D95A68@tamu.edu>, William Reading wri
tes:
 >Howdy,
 >
 >I was curious as to what would be required to keep this from becoming 
 >obsoleted.
Basically someone would have to be willing and able to take over maintenance
of the target.  That means first bringing it up to current coding standards
then keeping the target working and up-to-standards as those standards change.

The mn102 chip has some special properties that aren't found on many other
chips (for example 24bit wide address registers, and a severe shortage of
registers).  As a result it tends to be more susceptible to breakage as the
generic parts of the compiler change -- ie, it tends to be a high maintenance
target.

jeff

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