Re: changes requesting for GCC 17 Release Criteria (secondary targets)

Iain Sandoe via Gcc <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gcc.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>

> On 24 Mar 2026, at 02:52, Andrew Pinski via Gcc <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
>  I would like to request some changes to the secondary tasrgets of
> the GCC 17 Release Criteria. As the secondary targets seem out of date
> in some cases.
> 
> I propose to switch out mips64-linux-gnu with riscv64-linux-gnu as
> being a secondary platform. riscv64-linux-gnu is gaining in popularity
> and is riscv backend is actively maintained. There is much less
> hardware available for mips64 too. Note we should maybe even consider
> riscv64-linux-gnu for primary with GCC 18 but that might be too soon
> at this point.
> 
> Also `i686-mingw32` should be swapped out with `x86_64-mingw`. I don't
> think 32bit mingw is being testing these days only 64bit.
> Also I propose removing `i686-pc-cygwin`, I have not seen any recent
> work on 32bit x86 cygwin or testresults.
> Note I think adding `aarch64-mingw` would be too soon to add at this
> stage. Though I think we should reconsider it for GCC 18.
> 
> So the full for the secondary targets which I am proposing:
> aarch64-elf
> i686-apple-darwin

This probably should be x86_64-apple-darwin, actually I have a dim memory
that we (collectively) might have had that discussion before.  i686-darwin is
still tested, but very much less than x86_64.

thanks
Iain

> x86_64-mingw32
> s390x-linux-gnu
> riscv64-linux-gnu
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Andrew
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