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Re: The SPARC target



Mark Kettenis wrote:


Folks,

The SPARC target has been unmaintained for quite some time now[1]
(since november 2001) and it shows.  It doesn't compile on FreeBSD,
and running the testsuite on FreeBSD/sparc64 (after fixing it),
Solaris 2.8 and NetBSD/sparc results in hundreds of unexpected
failures with quite a few unresolved testcases.  I think the target is
bordering on (un)usability.


I would like to point out that the sparc port works quite well
for embedded (o/s unaware) 32-bit targets, at least up to gdb-5.3 .
There are some (minor) quirks with stack unwinding to form the
function backtrace, but overall it makes a good job. If you make
a new (64-bit) backend, could the old 32-bit backend remain, at
least the O/S independent parts?

Thanks, Jiri Gaisler.
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