Re: IBM z13 support for older GCCs

2015-05-22 Thread Andreas Krebbel
On 05/22/2015 10:54 AM, Richard Biener wrote: > On Fri, 22 May 2015, Andreas Krebbel wrote: > >> On 05/22/2015 10:22 AM, Richard Biener wrote: >>> On Fri, 22 May 2015, Andreas Krebbel wrote: >>> Hi, in order to get the IBM z13 support into present distros the Linux distributor

Re: IBM z13 support for older GCCs

2015-05-22 Thread Jakub Jelinek
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 12:43:14PM +, Joseph Myers wrote: > On Fri, 22 May 2015, Richard Biener wrote: > > > All arguments still apply apart from the fact that we'll have plenty > > of releases from the GCC 5 branch (and the alternatives patch is > > safe there). > > > > So for GCC 5 I'm will

Re: IBM z13 support for older GCCs

2015-05-22 Thread Joseph Myers
On Fri, 22 May 2015, Richard Biener wrote: > All arguments still apply apart from the fact that we'll have plenty > of releases from the GCC 5 branch (and the alternatives patch is > safe there). > > So for GCC 5 I'm willing to leave it to the architecture maintainers, > but please wait for other

Re: IBM z13 support for older GCCs

2015-05-22 Thread Richard Biener
On Fri, 22 May 2015, Andreas Krebbel wrote: > On 05/22/2015 10:22 AM, Richard Biener wrote: > > On Fri, 22 May 2015, Andreas Krebbel wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> in order to get the IBM z13 support into present distros the Linux > >> distributors asked me to get this > >> stuff upstream into th

Re: IBM z13 support for older GCCs

2015-05-22 Thread Andreas Krebbel
On 05/22/2015 10:22 AM, Richard Biener wrote: > On Fri, 22 May 2015, Andreas Krebbel wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> in order to get the IBM z13 support into present distros the Linux >> distributors asked me to get this >> stuff upstream into the older GCC branches first. This would ease the whole >> bac

Re: IBM z13 support for older GCCs

2015-05-22 Thread Jakub Jelinek
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 10:22:07AM +0200, Richard Biener wrote: > I'm somewhat missing the point of backporting z13 support. ppc64le > enablement was a different story (IBM basically saying ppc64-linux > is dead), but surely all z13 machines can run non-z13 code just fine. > > s390x-linux-gnu is

Re: IBM z13 support for older GCCs

2015-05-22 Thread Richard Biener
On Fri, 22 May 2015, Andreas Krebbel wrote: > Hi, > > in order to get the IBM z13 support into present distros the Linux > distributors asked me to get this > stuff upstream into the older GCC branches first. This would ease the whole > backporting efforts, > interactions with other patches and