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Re: m68k MacOS target support?
>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Meissner <meissner@cygnus.com> writes:
Michael> You never know. There is after all, somebody porting GCC
Michael> to the Dec-10 architecture, something like 10-15 years
Michael> after DEC stopped making them (I don't recall when the
Michael> plug was pulled). I seem to recall discussion about the
Michael> VAX and GCC working on pristine BSD 4.3 in the last 2
Michael> months. Unfortunately, the AS400 effort seems to be
Michael> running into a wall.
For the record, I don't think that we (as mainline GCC developers)
should worry about these kinds of platforms, and I think Stan's
comments show a very mature mode of thinking towards 68K Macs. There
is a large burden in dragging around old ports, trying to make sure
Makefiles work there, and so forth. If someone else wants to keep GCC
working on a Dec-10, or a PDP-11, or an SV3 system, or whatever that's
just great -- but I don't think we should worry about those systems
when maintaining GCC.
My two cents,
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