On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Samuel Tardieu <s...@rfc1149.net> wrote: > Hi. > > GCC 4.5.0 will ship with support for lm32. This is an IP which can be > configured in several ways (with or without barrel shifter, and with or > without a hardware multiplier). > > To be usable in all cases, it has to support multilib. The support is > present but broken: the "MULTILIB_OPTIONS" variable is located in the > wrong file! > > I submitted a small patch from a colleague of mine > (http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2010-03/msg00307.html) and sent three > PING already. But since there is no listed maintainer for lm32, it seems > that it doesn't draw any attention from anyone who can approve it, so I > cannot check it in. > > If we do not apply it, the multilib option for this new target will be > broken in 4.5.0. I know we are late in the development stage, but lm32 > is a new target and reading the patch makes it clear that it cannot > break any other platform. > > I know you guys are all very busy but I am not able to reach anyone > interested in lm32 on gcc-patches. Could someone with global commit > rights have a look at this patch and approve/reject/delay it? > > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2010-03/msg00307.html
The patch is ok. I wonder why we even accepted a new port without a maintainer though. David? Thanks, Richard. > Sam > > PS/ Note that I don't use this architecture myself and I am not > interested in becoming its maintainer -- I just happen to know > someone who uses it and noticed that GCC was broken. > -- > Samuel Tardieu -- s...@rfc1149.net -- http://www.rfc1149.net/ > >
