Subject: Re: Proposed targets to obsolete for gcc 3.5
To: None <port-pc532@netbsd.org>
From: Ben Elliston <bje@au.ibm.com>
List: port-pc532
Date: 06/23/2004 08:46:41
David Brownlee <abs@absd.org> writes:

> ns32k-*
>    Nobody is manufacturing these old beasts.  And again, the only
>    maintainance done on this port is making sure that it still builds.
>    There are no test results from the past year, the latest results posted
>    are from December 2002[8].  In addition, this is another cc0 target,
>    it is unknown if a free simulator exists, the port uses assembly
>    prologues/epilogues, it does not use define_constants.  In short, old
>    stuff that few still use/test, if anyone at all.
> 
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-06/msg01113.html
> 
>  	Maybe someone should reply to Steven Bosscher indicating ns32k
>  	support is still alive in one area of the world?

Ian Dall <ian at beware.dropbear.id.au> is listed as the ns32k GCC
maintainer.  I wonder if he has any comments on its current state of
maintenance?

Ben