On Sun, 16 Jun 2019 at 14:32, Jakub Jermář wrote: > > Hi Richard! > > On 6/13/19 1:13 PM, Richard Biener wrote: > > > > ia64 has no maintainer anymore so the following deprecates it > > with the goal of eliminating the port for GCC 11 if no maintainer > > steps up. > > > > OK? > > The HelenOS microkernel project would be affected by this as we are > actively developing and maintaining our ia64 port using GCC. Currently > we are using GCC 8.2 but will eventually want to upgrade to newer > versions of GCC, preferably on all our architectures at once and to the > same GCC version. > > We build with -O3 and in the past we reported and helped to test fixes > for the following GCC ia64-related bugs: > > - https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53975 > - https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=66660 > > We are ready to submit and help with more reports like these, it's just > currently we are not bugged by any ia64-related GCC issues.
Without feedback we have no way to know if the port is unused and broken, or just working fine for its users. One of the best ways you can help is to run the tests and submit reports to the gcc-testresults mailing list, so that IA64 results are visible at https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/current You can do that by running "make check -k" (with a suitable -j option) and then in the build directory running the contrib/test_summary script (in the GCC sources). e.g. make check -k -j8 $gccsrc/contrib/test_summary -m gcc-testresu...@gcc.gnu.org | sh
