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

On Tue, Mar 24, 2026 at 3:54 AM 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 As the secondary targets seem out of date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
> x86_64-mingw32
> s390x-linux-gnu
> riscv64-linux-gnu

I'd like to see comments from the respective old/new triplets
target/OS maintainers,
in particular this request should probably be split up.

I agree to _add_ riscv64-linux-gnu for GCC 17.

Thanks,
Richard.

>
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew