Re: Bountysource campaign for gcc-vax

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

On 4/22/21 12:31 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2020-12-13 01:34, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>> On 12/13/20 1:07 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>> This is all extremely exciting to read about. But my main question right
>>> now is when we can expect this to pop into the NetBSD tree?
>>
>> Most likely after gcc-11 has been released.
> 
> So NetBSD have now switched over to GCC 10 for VAX. I assume this is
> then not the fixed gcc that Maciej worked on?

Correct. The fixes are part of gcc-11 which is not released yet.

> I tried doing a build of current as of a couple of days ago.
> Cross compilation worked fine, and seems to give a pretty usable system.
> However native building on a VAX fails when trying to compile gcc itself.

Yep, that's the state of the VAX backend before the MODE_CC conversion.

> So, should I just ignore this, and wait for the much improved later gcc,
> or did something actually get into gcc 10?

Since backporting all the changes would probably a huge effort, you have no
other choice but to wait, I'm afraid. Maybe the VAX port can be switched
over to gcc-11 the moment it has been uploaded to the NetBSD archives.

Adrian

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