Re: IA-64 GCC deprecation?

On 6/16/19 12:56 AM, Jim Wilson wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 7:30 AM Jason Duerstock
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Regarding LRA, I saw this coming and started working on it here:  https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=90785
>> Judging from the similar SH4 PR, I understand this isn't a trivial thing to fix.
> 
> Yes, which is why some folks would rather get rid of the IA-64 port
> than try to fix it themselves.

Regarding LRA, I can only speak for SH where LRA mostly works fine although
it has some issues here and there.

>> Is there any reason I couldn't become the ia64 maintainer, assuming there was someone available to act as my general gcc mentor?
> 
> Yes, I suppose that I can act as a mentor.  I'm extremely busy with
> RISC-V stuff though, so I may not have much time to help.

I wonder what's left for RISC-V to do. Most of the stuff seems to work, the
only thing that no one has taken care of are OpenJDK and LLVM.

I would have taken care of the OpenJDK stuff, at least for the Zero VM, but
I feel that RISC-V has an insane amount of people working on the ports, so
I rather focus on my pet ports ;).

Adrian