From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24126 invoked by alias); 5 Sep 2010 18:29:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 24118 invoked by uid 22791); 5 Sep 2010 18:29:25 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (38.113.113.100) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:29:21 +0000 Received: (qmail 18053 invoked from network); 5 Sep 2010 18:29:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.105?) (mitchell@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 5 Sep 2010 18:29:19 -0000 Message-ID: <4C83E189.1030601@codesourcery.com> Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:29:00 -0000 From: Mark Mitchell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: NightStrike CC: GCC , "Joseph S. Myers" , Richard Guenther , Jakub Jelinek Subject: Re: End of GCC 4.6 Stage 1: October 27, 2010 References: <4C7D26EA.6020807@codesourcery.com> <4C83DB83.9080404@codesourcery.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2010-09/txt/msg00042.txt.bz2 On 9/5/2010 11:23 AM, NightStrike wrote: >> It's not so much a matter of "checking off". It's a combination of the >> SC's perception of the importance of the target and the technical stats >> of the port. I can raise the issue with the SC, if you like, but, >> personally, I'm not sure that 64-bit Windows is significant enough as a >> target platform for GCC to merit that status. > > Ouch. What criteria do you use for that analysis? I can't say what criteria the SC uses; I don't know what basis other SC members use to decide. I use my own instincts (which, I admit, is not a scientific basis) for deciding. I spend much of my life talking to various stakeholders in GCC, and so I have a reasonable feel for where people are presently using GCC, and where they would like to use it. Thus far, I've certainly heard of some interest in 64-bit Windows, but nowhere near as much as 32-bit Windows or Cygwin. I certainly don't mind raising the issue, if you want me to do that; I'm happy to carry messages to the SC independent of my own opinions. -- Mark Mitchell CodeSourcery mark@codesourcery.com (650) 331-3385 x713