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

On Tue, Mar 24, 2026 at 6:21 AM Jason Merrill <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Side note:  Please don't CC gcc@ and gcc-sc@ on the same message.

Oh, sorry about that. I updated the SC wiki
(https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/gcc-steering-committee) to add a note for
others so they don't repeat my mistake.
The wording I used is `Note it is best not to CC the SC if you writing
an email to the GCC list.`

Thanks,
Andrew

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> On Tue, Mar 24, 2026 at 2:54 AM Andrew Pinski via Gcc <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> 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 As the secondary targets seem out of date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
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Andrew
>>