Re: Converting to LRA (calling all maintainers)
From: Eric Botcazou Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 23:43:43 +0200 >> p.s. Are there plans for converting the SPARC port? > > There are more than plans - actual patches by DaveM that were installed at > some point and then reverted quickly because of unexpected fallout. Yeah, sparc64 failed to bootstrap and it was the stage2 that was miscompiled. I lacked the time to debug it properly so we reverted.
Re: Converting to LRA (calling all maintainers)
> I lacked the time to debug it properly so we reverted. Do you plan to give it a try again in the near future? -- Eric Botcazou
Re: Converting to LRA (calling all maintainers)
From: Eric Botcazou Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2016 10:18:23 +0200 >> I lacked the time to debug it properly so we reverted. > > Do you plan to give it a try again in the near future? I was going to work on this over the past summer, but other responsibilities took up all of my time. Probably the earliest I could look into this again would be November.
Re: Converting to LRA (calling all maintainers)
> Probably the earliest I could look into this again would be > November. OK, fine with me. I'm going to slightly restructure the support of the integer condition codes in preparation for the implementation of the new overflow arithmetic operations, but there should be no overlap. -- Eric Botcazou