> I'm still wondering: Do GCC developers routinely > test their patches on MIPS, ARM, and S390 platforms > (for example)? I signed up for the 'cfarm' and don't see > an S390 there, and some of the secondary targets > look like they might be really SLOW?
GCC developers test patches according to the guidelines at: http://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html Adding a new compiler to the collection is a different thing. We must have some evidences that it will work reasonably well on (at least) primary and secondary platforms, so a good coverage of architecture types is required. -- Eric Botcazou
