"keep the VAX machine description up to date"?? huh? the VAX hasnt changed 
since the second edition of the VARM came out, like 12 years ago!

isildur

we really should do sufficient adaptation to pcc to a: free it from the 
license, b: make the optimizer as good as gcc's, and c: dig ANSI C as 
well as K&R. 



> >>>>(Note that people are talking about dropping VAX support altogether;
> >>>>you should probably jump in on that debate if you feel up to keeping the
> >>>>processor support working.  I expect it's a lot less work to keep ULTRIX
> >>>>working on the MIPS processors than do keep the VAX machine description
> >>>>up to date.)