------- Comment #4 from rchapman at acm dot org 2006-05-17 03:44 ------- (In reply to comment #3) > I don't mind putting it back in, Jim described what needs to be done in > PR24357. I don't have a ratfor processor to test with, so I'd prefer if > someone else wrote (i.e. copied from gcc < 4.0) and tested the necessary > specs. >
I too would love to see Ratfor support reinstated. I really appreciate the expertise and efforts of the developers and maintainers and am sure that they always have a long list of things "to do". Unfortunately, I do not have the 'smarts' to write and test the necessary specs. I have been maintaining a branch of 'PD Ratfor in C' derived from 'Ratfor in C' (as posted by Ozan Yigit [oz] June 19, 1985, in 'net.sources' on Usenet with subsequent modifications by Ken Yap and W. Bauske) and have used it extensively with GCC versions prior to 4.x on a variety of platforms. I would be glad to provide this 'ratfor' packaged as a GNU Build System distribution tarball to anyone who can write and test the specs. The tarball contains a conventional 'configure', 'make', 'make install' distribution (including man page, info document, and two simple ratfor test programs) that has been validated for linux (RedHat & Fedora) and MingW. Thanks for your time and attention. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27513
