Hello (again) from Gregg C Levine
A follow up. (And I still don't know why the GCC list dropped my other
ID.)
It turns out that the reason why they want to declare that blurb for
GCC for the VAX, is that there is currently no one that they know of,
actively maintaining it. Two of them even asked me. Me? I'm an
observer in this business.

Who maintains GCC for the NetBSD ports? I should think that the fellow
who maintains the one for NetBSD/VAX would be interested in this
issue.
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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 Gregg C Levine
> Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 4:39 PM
> To: 'Henry R. Bent'
> Cc: port-vax@netbsd.org
> Subject: RE: GCC wants to declare us obsolete!
>=20
> Hello (again) from Gregg C Levine
> Oh my.........
> 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.
>=20
> 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.
> -------------------
> Gregg C Levine hansolofalcon@worldnet.att.net
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> "The Force will be with you...Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi
> "Use the Force, Luke."=A0 Obi-Wan Kenobi
>=20
> > -----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!
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I noticed that in the latest round of gcc obsoletions (for 3.5)
they
> have
> > proposed vax-*-*.  Link is here:
> >
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-06/msg01113.html
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > --
> > Henry Bent
> > hbent@cs.oberlin.edu