Hello (again) from Gregg C Levine
Oh my.........=20
Henry, it happens that I remember a discussion with the lead
maintainer for GCC for one of the branches, I think it was the move
towards the version 3 series. He was convinced that to drop the VAX
series of ports was appropriate. I agree that it is indeed a Bad
Thing. I have not gotten any messages from the GCC list on this, so
your message came as a surprise. And I know I am subscribed to that
same list. I am going to post a message to it, today, and remind them
that there is a need for the VAX- entries in the GCC collection, and
that a free simulator does exist.

Also what's the status of moving towards to ELF for VAX? The last I
had heard it was expected for this release. I can't recall if the
current release number is ELF, or the other format.
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Gregg C Levine hansolofalcon@worldnet.att.net
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: port-vax-owner@NetBSD.org [mailto:port-vax-owner@NetBSD.org]
On
> Behalf Of Henry R. Bent
> Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 3:32 PM
> To: port-vax@netbsd.org
> Subject: GCC wants to declare us obsolete!
>=20
> Hi all,
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> I noticed that in the latest round of gcc obsoletions (for 3.5) they
have
> proposed vax-*-*.  Link is here:
>=20
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-06/msg01113.html
>=20
> This would be, I think, a Bad Thing.  Does anyone on the list have
any
> pull with the GCC folks to say "no, don't do this"?  It was already
> pointed out in a followup that SIMH provides VAX support, and as far
as I
> know GCC has not obsoleted the pdp11-*-* targets... I can't follow
their
> logic here.
>=20
> --
> Henry Bent
> hbent@cs.oberlin.edu