From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1151 invoked by alias); 2 Dec 2004 12:57:41 -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 1067 invoked from network); 2 Dec 2004 12:57:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO Cantor.suse.de) (195.135.220.2) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 2 Dec 2004 12:57:34 -0000 Received: from extimap.suse.de (extimap.suse.de [195.135.220.6]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by Cantor.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71CB111AC76F; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 13:57:34 +0100 (CET) Received: from extimap.suse.de (extimap.suse.de [195.135.220.6]) by extimap.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41A7C1289E4; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 13:57:34 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <7889542.1101992254266.SLOX.WebMail.wwwrun@extimap.suse.de> Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 12:57:00 -0000 From: Steven Bosscher To: Jonathan Wilson Subject: Re: what are the "primary targets" for GCC? Cc: gcc In-Reply-To: <41AF09C3.4050504@tpgi.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Operating-System: Linux 2.4.21-251-smp i386 (JVM 1.3.1_04) Organization: SuSE Linux AG References: <41AF09C3.4050504@tpgi.com.au> X-SW-Source: 2004-12/txt/msg00121.txt.bz2 On Dec 02, 2004 01:25 PM, Jonathan Wilson wrote: > I see lots of references to some targets being the "primary targets" (which > I assume means that those backends are the ones the GCC folk consider the > most important) but which targets are these? That depends from release to release. For GCC 3.4 you can find the list on http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.4/criteria.html under the header "Platform Support". Same for GCC 3.3 and earlier. (Interesting nit: The criteria for GCC 3.4 are still only a draft according to that page ;-)). There are no documented GCC 4.0.0 Release Criteria yet, and I don't know who is responsible for proposing the criteria and approving them. Until somebody proposes something I suppose the "primary targets" are just those which are the most important historically or from the point of view of the majority of the contributors (x86*-linux, MIPS, HPPA, powerpc*, HPPA, maybe Alpha, maybe ARM, at least one *BSD target, ...). Gr. Steven