68k range question was Re: testing of pre-release test versions of gccand binutils

[Joel Sherrill]

Eric Norum wrote:
> 
> Joel Sherrill wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Gerke Kok wrote:
> > >
> > > I noticed no support for the 68k range in the GCC. Will OAR-corp do anything
> > > to get this running? Are there any other plans? Anyone?
> >
> > What do you mean?  There is currently a build failure but it is reported
> > and being worked on AFAIK.  The first problem I reported was already
> > fixed.
> 
> I think that the original poster was referring to the fact that the
> GCC-3.0 main web page refers to `Primary Evaluation Platforms' and
> `Secondary Evaluation Platforms', none of which are 68k-based.  AFAIK
> this just means that the GCC developers are depending on others to test
> the operation of the compiler for other target architectures.

OK.  The primary platforms are ones that it is easy to regression test
on.  If there aren't many hosts available for the architecture, then
it is hard to do regular regression testing.  The FSF did not want to
hold up releases for hard to test or obscure platforms.

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