BTW thanks to the S/390 GCC team for taking the time to identify, report and sometimes fix Ada-language related bugs on their platform.
Laurent On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 18:53 +0200, Andreas Krebbel wrote: > Hello Mark, > > sorry for tuning in so late to the GCC 4.3 primary/secondary > plattform discussion. > > As you probably expect I'll give a vote for s390-ibm-linux-gnu > and s390x-ibm-linux-gnu to be marked as gcc secondary plattforms. > > I think the s390 back end is in a pretty good shape. The languages > c,ada,c++,fortran,java,objc and obj-c++ bootstrap fine and are tested > regularly. I've set up a gcc daily build posting the testresults of the > last 3 gcc branches every day. > > We have a competent maintainer - Ulrich Weigand and 2 developers at IBM > (Wolfgang Gellerich and myself) who are able to spent at least a good part > of their time working on the S/390 back-end fixing bugs, > developing new features and providing support of new cpus. > > In the criteria for primary plattforms I've read that primary plattforms > have to be "popular systems". Reading this as "widely used" I think that > this will be a requirement which mainframes are unlikely to meet in the > near future, so I propose to make s390 and s390x secondary plattforms for > now. I think this can be important to show users that gcc works reliably on > S/390 and that it can be expected to do so in the future as well. > > Bye, > > -Andreas- >
