>>>>> "James" == James E Wilson <James> writes:
James> On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 06:00, Paul Koning wrote: >> I wonder if the work-in-progress PDP10 port >> (http://pdp10.nocrew.org/gcc/) might help with this. James> Interesting, but a hobbyist port for a 36-bit machine that was James> end-of-lifed about 2 decades ago has little chance of success, James> unless there are some very dedicated volunteers willing to James> maintain it and champion it. That doesn't seem to be the James> case, as the web site hasn't been updated in 2 years, and the James> NetBSD port seems to have been dormant for 2 years. James> There are also possible copyright assignment issues here. Do James> we know if all of the contributors have valid copyright James> assignment papers? If not, then it isn't safe to borrow any James> code from there. True. FWIW, I know that both the PDP10 and the PDP11 target support in binutils were contributed by that gentleman. By the way, I don't believe that "hobbyist port" is a correct characterization of the pdp10 port work. paul
