VAX/GCC port maintenance

VAX/GCC port maintenance

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

Hi,

 I have recently started a new position at Embecosm and the company has 
offered me to sponsor a personal project related to its business.  So I 
had it in my mind already for a while to continue the effort with the VAX 
backend I have started with the MODE_CC conversion, as a port maintainer.

 There has been the outstanding issue of improving code generation with 
LRA we are going to switch to sometime as well as other problems noticed 
in the course of said conversion.  I will be happy to look into all this 
and more for the port to improve and I seem to have been the only person 
making substantial changes to the port in the recent times.  And I can 
serve as the point of contact for any queries or discussions about the 
port.

 Would the GCC steering committee be willing to hand this responsibility 
over to me?

  Maciej

Re: VAX/GCC port maintenance

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

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Hi Maciej,

On Tue, 2021-10-19 15:39:15 +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@embecosm.com> wrote:
>  I have recently started a new position at Embecosm and the company has 
> offered me to sponsor a personal project related to its business.  So I 
> had it in my mind already for a while to continue the effort with the VAX 
> backend I have started with the MODE_CC conversion, as a port maintainer.

I'm all for it!

>  There has been the outstanding issue of improving code generation with 
> LRA we are going to switch to sometime as well as other problems noticed 
> in the course of said conversion.  I will be happy to look into all this 
> and more for the port to improve and I seem to have been the only person 
> making substantial changes to the port in the recent times.  And I can 
> serve as the point of contact for any queries or discussions about the 
> port.
> 
>  Would the GCC steering committee be willing to hand this responsibility 
> over to me?

As well: I'm all for it! In the last few years, only minimal
maintenance happened for the VAX backend. Neither Matt nor myself (not
being a maintainer for VAX, but I care about this!) did do a lot.
Would be great to have another port maintainer and I'm especially
happy that you'd consider working on the VAX code in your sponsor
project's time.

Thanks,
  Jan-Benedict

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