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GCC 11 Compiler Could End Up Removing Support For The Motorola m68k, Other Old CPUs
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monraaf - "Read the mailing list discussion. People are actually stepping up to do that. Jeff Law has announced he would do it next year and he is basically the one who has the last word on this."
Read the linked discussion before giving our opinions? We're Phoronix readers. We can't be bothered.
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Originally posted by GrayShade View Post
TBH, nobody is going to upgrade to GCC 11 for their XBox 360 or whatever. Most embedded projects use known-good toolchains from ages ago. Arduino has what, GCC 5.4? On SPARC platforms, GCC 3.4 is still going strong.
I'm glad they're picking m68k up atleast. It's not like it's hard to build your own toolchain.
I never use ages old GCCs unless I'm forced to by stupid.
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Originally posted by DrYak View PostI think the "sarcasm tag" is one of the few exception were the revival of the 90s "Blink element" would be justified.
Quite a few people seem to have missed it.
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Originally posted by M@GOid View PostSo they are saying that support for compiling on the Atari ST, Amiga and first gen Macs will be removed? This is a outrage!!!!!!1!
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If nobody maintains that code path to keep it up to modern standards, not doing so would be silly. If nobody steps up to keep m68k support code up to current requirements, they should remove it, as it's nothing but legacy baggage. Feel free to use an older version, fork it, or try to ensure m68k is properly supported.
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Originally posted by GrayShade View Post
TBH, nobody is going to upgrade to GCC 11 for their XBox 360 or whatever. Most embedded projects use known-good toolchains from ages ago. Arduino has what, GCC 5.4? On SPARC platforms, GCC 3.4 is still going strong.
Last I checked at least 4.7 works fine on my sparc64 server and I think 6.3 or so was working. I personally haven't tested past that.
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Originally posted by jaskij View PostI bet that Microchip will step up and update that AVR backend as the MCU manufacturer. Just give them time to react. Unless they want to drop AVRs (they did drop a lot of MCUs when acquiring Atmel). Or the community will do it themselves.
The conversion from cc0 is not trivial - it is specialist stuff. It is not going to happen as a community volunteer effort. It will, I think, take many months of work - it will not happen unless Microchip pays for it to happen.
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Originally posted by cb88 View PostSparc is "supported" but only just... there are a lot of bugs that don't get worked on a lot due to lack of interest. Also GCC 3.4 perhaps you meant 4.3 as that is what most BSDs will have as they never upgraded past that... 3.4 is pretty ancient at this point (14 years?).
Originally posted by cb88 View PostSparc is also probably architecturally inferior to say RISC-V or MIPS in that it relies on the antiquated and kludgy register windows that it inherited from the original RISC architectures and is now stuck with them for compatiblity.
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