Bountysource campaign for gcc-vax

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz%physik.fu-berlin.de@localhost>]

Hi!

I have seen the discussion on this mailing list regarding a Bountysource campaign
to convert the VAX backend in GCC from cc0 to MODE_CC [1].

Since nothing has come out of it and VAX is one of the last two backends that
are currently not being taken care of [2] (AVR and H8300 are being worked on,
CRIS and M68K are done), I thought it might be a good idea to help with the
efforts.

Since using Bountysource works pretty neatly for this kind of effort, I would
suggest using it for the VAX backend as well.

The critical point is to be able to gain enough supporters so that we can collect
at least $2000. Plus, it should be easily possible to install NetBSD/VAX inside
an emulator. The latter requirement seems to have been fulfilled already [3,4],
so I think we should just create an issue in the GCC bug tracker and link that
to Bountysource.

Then we just need to spread the word (reddit, Twitter etc).

Adrian

> [1] http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-vax/2020/04/16/msg003460.html
> [2] https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc-patches/2019-09/msg01256.html
> [3] http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-vax/2020/04/18/msg003481.html
> [4] http://www.netbsd.org/ports/vax/emulator-howto.html

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