Hi, at Apple's WWDC this year they have announced that they are doing yet another architecture transition, so I was wondering what exactly would be the best way to go about adding support for it? The first issue would be just what to call the new architecture; it seems to be ARM-based, but there might be some proprietary extensions, so arm-apple-darwin or aarch64-apple-darwin might not work? The next issue would be how exactly to go about adding support for it: Apple had arm-apple-darwin support for gcc in their version of gcc-4.2 that I don't think they ever contributed back upstream, but that was for iOS, so I doubt it could just be forward-ported, and even if it could, previous attempts to grab stuff from Apple's version of gcc-4.2 have faltered for legal reasons, so that could also be a factor here. I'm guessing it might be better instead to just start afresh from scratch? I'd offer to help with testing but I *just* got a new Intel-based Mac that I haven't even managed to set up yet, so I highly doubt I'll have any money for a new ARM-based Mac anytime soon... Anyways, I'm interested to hear what people are thinking.
Thanks, Eric Gallager
