From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25846 invoked by alias); 16 May 2003 21:55:24 -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 25815 invoked from network); 16 May 2003 21:55:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.oarcorp.com) (216.107.91.226) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 16 May 2003 21:55:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 4980 invoked from network); 16 May 2003 21:55:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO OARcorp.com) (136.205.65.100) by 0 with SMTP; 16 May 2003 21:55:23 -0000 Message-ID: <3EC55E4A.A2B5D17C@OARcorp.com> Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 22:09:00 -0000 From: Joel Sherrill Organization: OAR Corporation X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "E. Weddington" CC: zack@codesourcery.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: Policy for obsoleting targets References: <3EC4DEF2.23920.4D92B94@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-05/txt/msg01633.txt.bz2 "E. Weddington" wrote: > > On 16 May 2003 at 12:33, Joel Sherrill wrote: > > > > I decided to see how many targets which I thought had users would get > > auto-deprecated by this policy. Here is a quick take of targets > > which I did a search for in gcc-testresults. I am pretty > > sure > > that some of these have active users : > > > avr*-*-* - No reports > > I can attest that there have been over 9,000 downloads of the Windows hosted > AVR cross alone. Then add in known AVR users on Linux and FreeBSD. The AVR > target has an extremely active community. > > > I think this policy is probably OK for self-hosted environments but > > raises the bar too high for embedded targets. I fairly regularly > > report that at least the *-rtems and many of the embedded targets > > without > > simulators build. I know what you are trying to achieve but this > > policy is too rough for embedded targets. > > I would certainly agree. I wish I was replying to the right post but someone mentioned that a list of supported target triples would be nice. I have to concur on this one. It is often not easy to find the magic triple that binutils, gcc, newlib, and gdb agree on. > Eric Weddington -- Joel Sherrill, Ph.D. Director of Research & Development joel@OARcorp.com On-Line Applications Research Ask me about RTEMS: a free RTOS Huntsville AL 35805 Support Available (256) 722-9985