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From: Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Jenner <andrew@codesourcery.com>,
	Dennis Luehring <dl.soluz@gmx.net>,
	GCC Development <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: current state of gcc-ia16?
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 19:19:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cd770974-59c3-24d3-2032-7e12e2e6db93@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a0265808-4795-8c44-e2d1-7a545ec69ce8@codesourcery.com>

On 06/08/2018 06:05 AM, Andrew Jenner wrote:
> On 08/06/2018 12:43, Dennis Luehring wrote:
>>>> is the patch already integrated into mainline?
>>> No, it's not.
>>
>> will that ever happen?
> 
> Hard to say. There's no reason in principle why it couldn't happen, but
> there's not a big demand for it, so it would require someone taking the
> time and trouble to do it. It's not trivial, though - the current
> implementation has some middle-end changes which would need thinking
> through and doing properly to avoid polluting that code with ia16-isms.
> 
> I might update it and have another try at upstreaming it at some point
> if nobody else does it first, but I have too much else going on at the
> moment so it would likely be a year or two (maybe more) before I get to it.
Time is by far the biggest concern for the ia16 backend.  THere's just a
mountain of higher priority stuff right now.  It doesn't help that I
keep getting dragged into other stuff :(

jeff

      reply	other threads:[~2018-06-11 19:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-08 10:59 Dennis Luehring
2018-06-08 11:43 ` Andrew Jenner
2018-06-08 12:06   ` Dennis Luehring
2018-06-08 13:22     ` Andrew Jenner
2018-06-11 19:19       ` Jeff Law [this message]

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