On 7/8/24 5:52 AM, Oleg Endo wrote:
From what I know it started during the earlier cygwin days in the 90s,
originally contracted by Hitachi to complement their own in-house C compiler
and also to allow sh-linux to happen at some point. It was entertained by
Renesas for a while through further contracted support work but eventually
they have abandoned it. STmicro was also a licensee of the SH4 CPU for
their TV set top boxes and had a few guys submitting patches now and then
for a while. But the whole thing basically went on life support about 10
years ago.
Perhaps Jeff or others can give more insight on the historical parts.
IIRC Joern Rennecke was doing most of the GCC work for SH back in the
90s, with perhaps Steve Chamberlain pitching in (though I think he did
more on the BFD side). I never really did anything with it as I was
focused more on other systems.
Jeff
