Hi, On Tue, 15 Jun 2010, Paulo J. Matos wrote:
> >> Is GCC slowly losing support for certain archs or it is still > >> striving to be as generic as possible? > > > > GCC looses and gains support for architectures depending on the > > availability of competent volunteer maintainers for these > > architectures. Of course, 'volunteer' in this context can also mean > > that a company volunteers to employ / contract with a developer to do > > this work. > > But while the backends might vary as much as they like, the core gcc > code such as optabs.c should be as generic as possible, right? That's the goal, yes. Of course there are multiple level of generality, and some levels tend to bit-rot faster than others. In particular support for QImode != 8 bits and mode(int)<SImode tends to become broken over time because such targets are rare/untested/unmaintained. But the general goal remains. If someone does the work. Like you ;-) Ciao, Michael.
