On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 01:41:23PM -0400, Lord Isildur wrote:

 > "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!

The VAX machine description has to change from time to time for a few
reasons:

	1. Changes to the middle-end require tweaks to the back-end.

	2. Changes to support e.g. PIC code on the VAX (which the
	   master FSF GCC sources do not support).

 > 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. 

That would be wasted effort.  Are you going to add C++ to PCC?  Are you
going to add Fortran to PCC?  Are you going to make PCC emit debug info
that modern debuggers like to use?

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>