Subject: Re: PIC hacks
To: None <richard.earnshaw@arm.com>
From: Todd Whitesel <toddpw@best.com>
List: port-arm32
Date: 12/05/1998 03:40:22
> Since I'm the EGCS/ARM port maintainer (well, one of the two), it will 
> probably be me doing it....  Of course, if I start working on that, it 
> would be nice to know that it was because someone wanted to use it :-)  It 
> certainly won't happen by magic.

What I was trying to say without revealing everything was that if us
netbsd-ers don't do anything, certain commercial interests might pay
a certain consultant to develop it and submit the patches, because of
paying customers who might want interworking and ARM SDT compatible
code generation in GCC.

> It's not especially hard, just a bit tedious.  Especially if the fixed 
> registers have changed, since the code has to be checked for conflicts.  

Aha. I was only thinking about the PIC issues.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ best.com