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Re: PATCH: support for NEC SX architecture


Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com> writes:

> Jaka MoÄnik wrote:
>> On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 12:56 +0200, Tristan Gingold wrote:
>
>>> BTW: in there a documentation for the cpu ?
>> sure there is. ;) it is unfortunately not (or, better, is not supposed
>> to be) publicly available. however, asking google about it, you just
>> might find something. ;)
>
>   All of a sudden I'm uncertain whether it's suitable to include support for a
> somewhat private undocumented target in FSF sources.  I don't know if there's
> a policy about it but it stands out from other targets in this regard.  Do you
> have any idea how many of these supercomputers there are in use out there?

I think it's OK.  In effect a public binutils/gcc port documents the
target.

What does tend to happen with these private ports is that the maintainer
changes jobs, the port bitrots, and gets removed.

Ian


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