On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Peter Bergner wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 12:27 -0700, Erick Garske wrote:
>> There a location where I can download the binary of GCC for the IBM i?
>>
>> http://gcc.gnu.org/install/binaries.html
>>
>> Are any of these compatible for the IBM i at V6R1M0?
>
> Ther
an't
help but feel this may cause continued headaches in the future. There
may be more legitimate reasons for supporting older platforms,
especially with heavy embedded use of archs with vastly different
species like mips, ppc, and i386. Of course, this may be well known
(I'm sure there is historical background) and I have no solution to
offer.
Regards,
Kevin Bowling
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 6:51 PM, David Edelsohn wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Kevin Bowling
> wrote:
>
>> This is an unfortunate attitude many people have in free software
>> these days, especially big business contributors with profit-aligned
>> mot
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Steven Bosscher wrote:
> On 6/30/10, Kevin Bowling wrote:
>>> GCC's mission is not to
>>> support every system in a computer history museum. Older versions of
>>> GCC created at the time of those systems still will work on thos
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 7:09 AM, David Edelsohn wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 1:53 AM, Kevin Bowling
> wrote:
>> In the GCC 4.5 announcement:
>>
>> "Support for the classic POWER architecture implemented in the
>> original RIOS and RIOS2 processors of the
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 12:45 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 06/29/2010 06:53 AM, Kevin Bowling wrote:
>> In the GCC 4.5 announcement:
>>
>> "Support for the classic POWER architecture implemented in the
>> original RIOS and RIOS2 processors of the old IBM RS/6000 pr
eeds to be done to keep this code alive? It seems fairly light
weight. I can provide remote access to AIX POWER2 hardware if needed.
Regards,
Kevin Bowling
