> On Aug 17, 2017, at 1:36 PM, Bin.Cheng <amker.ch...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 6:22 PM, <paul.kon...@dell.com> wrote:
>>
>> ...
>> One of GCC's great strength is its support for many ISAs. Not all to the
>> same level of excellence, but there are many, and adding more is easy at
>> least for an initial basic level of support. When this is needed, GCC is
>> the place to go.
>>
>> I'd like to work on moving one of the remaining CC0 targets to the new way,
>> but if the reality is that GCC is trying to be "mainstream only" then that
>> may not be a good way for me to spend my time.
> HI,
> I can't believe GCC ever tries to be "mainstream only". It's somehow
> like that because major part of requirements come from popular
> architectures, and large part of patches are developed/tested on
> popular architectures. It's a unfortunate/natural result of lacking
> of developers for non-mainstream. We can make it less "mainstream
> only" only if we have enough developers for less popular arch. Your
> work will contribute to this and must be highly appreciated :)
>
> Thanks,
> bin
Thanks for the encouragement. I will keep tinkering with the pdp11 target to
make it better.
paul
