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Re: Recent removal of a.out and COFF support for sparc
> On Aug 8, 2018, at 5:35 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
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> On 08/08/2018 11:27 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
> ...
>> Nor are there plans to trim the target set of gcc down to "current mainstream targets", whatever that might mean.
>
> Well, yes, I just linked one of those gcc targets - the e500 target - earlier
> today. The m68k target in gcc is also constantly under threat because of the
> planned cc0 removal. Both the e500 and the m68k targets in gcc are actively
> used. The m68k target is still very popular despite its age.
As others have said, you need a maintainer for a target. I don't know what the story is for the two platforms you mentioned. Maintaining an older not so technically demanding platform is not all that hard. I took on the pdp11 target some years ago because I wanted to make sure it stayed alive, and it still is. For that matter, I recently did the CC0 conversion for it. It's not that big a job, and probably easier for the m68k.
paul