Test results for first test release for 2.11
Ian Lance Taylor
ian@zembu.com
Mon Apr 2 09:03:00 GMT 2001
Philip Blundell <philb@gnu.org> writes:
> Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> >h8500-coff, tic80-coff, and we32k-coff all did work at one time. I'm
> >not sure about pj (PicoJava) or vax-dec-ultrix.
>
> I can't find any evidence that we32k-coff has ever worked in a useful way in
> the FSF tree. Support was added to BFD in 1992, and surprisingly enough it
> still compiles, but neither GAS nor LD know what to do with it. It looks like
> this was a project that Cygnus worked on but either it got canned at an early
> stage or it was just never contributed to GNU. Either way I'm not inclined to
> worry about it too much.
It is possible that it didn't work in a meaningful way, in which case
perhaps we should remove it.
It wasn't a Cygnus project per se. Brendan had access to a WE32K
machine somewhere, and did it for fun. (I think he had so much fun
that he never worked on BFD again.)
Ian
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