Re: Bountysource campaign for gcc-vax

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 03:23:24AM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
>  I would suggest that you try GCC 11.1 right away (which has been already 
> released, as from Apr 27th) to see how it performs, and shake out any 
> issues that you can and report ones you cannot (I'd be glad to help with 
> anything on the GCC side).  This may well take those 2-3 months as I 
> predicted earlier on in this discussion.

I'd strongly encourage going this way and shaking out things early.

It is very unlikely that the official vax sources will switch to any
newer gcc before 11.3 and there are other restrictions that might delay
this switch: we only handle two different gcc versions in the main
source tree, and we have not yet switched everything to gcc 10 (for
example we see serious regressions when generating code for ARM v6
cpus).

Martin