Fwd: [PATCH 0/3] Split off powerpcspe from rs6000 port

[Sebastian Huber]

FYI

I guess for RTEMS we should use "powerpcspe-rtems*-*". Is it possible to 
use the RTEMS "powerpc" directories with such a target? We had an 
"arm-rtemseabi*" maybe due to some configure/automake limitations. So, 
maybe "powerpc-rtemsspe*"?

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Subject: 	[PATCH 0/3] Split off powerpcspe from rs6000 port
Date: 	Mon, 15 May 2017 20:51:49 +0000
From: 	Segher Boessenkool <segher at kernel.crashing.org>
To: 	gcc-patches at gcc.gnu.org
CC: 	Segher Boessenkool <segher at kernel.crashing.org>, David Edelsohn 
<dje.gcc at gmail.com>, Andrew Jenner <andrew at codesourcery.com>, Arnaud 
Charlet <charlet at adacore.com>, Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore.com>, 
Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill at oarcorp.com>, Joseph Myers 
<joseph at codesourcery.com>, Olivier Hainque <hainque at adacore.com>, Sandra 
Loosemore <sandra at codesourcery.com>



Hi!

As discussed before, here is a series to split powerpcspe from the
rs6000 port.  This series does not yet make any real changes to either
port: it is a copy of rs6000/ to powerpcspe/, with some renames and
some necessary changes to the port file, and slightly more involved
changes to config.gcc .

This was tested on powerpc64-linux {-m32,-m64}, and it was build-tested
on powerpc-linux-gnuspe (and the resulting compiler was tested to be
functional: it can build various Linux defconfigs for SPE systems).

I have tried to see how much the powerpcspe port can be simplified
after this, and found it can lose 80% of the code without big problems.
You may however not want all that, for example, I removed all 64-bit
support in that test.  Getting rid of all VMX/VSX support is a big part
of it already, as is removing "classic" floating point (and paired
single, and xilinx fpu, and all newer ISA features, etc.)

For the rs6000 port the low-hanging fruits are much more modest, only
5% or a bit more; but in pretty gnarly code.  For example, some current
pain points are the SPE ABI (for separate shrink-wrapping), and how
isel is handled.

This won't be the final series...  I have a few questions:

-- This uses powerpc-*-rtems*spe*; do we want powerpcspe-*-rtems*
    instead?  Or both?
-- This uses powerpc-wrs-vxworksspe; do we want powerpcspe-wrs-vxworks
    instead?  Both?  What about the ae and mils variants?
-- Does powerpc*-*-freebsd*spe* exist?
-- Does powerpc-*-netbsd*spe* exist?
-- Does powerpc-*-eabisim*spe* exist?
-- Does powerpcle-*-*spe* exist?

Also, testing is needed :-)  You can get better testing by removing
the rs6000/ directories completely, btw.; otherwise files from rs6000/
can accidentally be picked up instead of the corresponfing file from
powerpcspe/, which will currently work because there are no big
differences yet, but things will diverge later (and then break).


Segher