On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Chuck McManis wrote:

> Basically the VAX is screwed in this regard. One could easily imagine
> forking a GCC (heck just start from old EGCS release) and making a
> "VAX only" cc. That would be pretty trivially maintainable by a single
> individual once it was complete because the VAX isn't changing, (nor
> is it likely to change :-).

Although I'll side with the official stance of NetBSD sticking with an
approved GCC as the only official compiler, there's nothing to prevent
anyone motivated enough to take an older, lighter weight, version of the
GNU compiler and maintain it under pkgsrc.

-brian.