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From: Peter Barada <peter@the-baradas.com>
To: brian.laponsey@freescale.com
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: mcore-*-* target to be deleted?
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 14:22:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041202142155.C2D5E9842C@baradas.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1101996241.4678.13.camel@blapo.sps.mot.com> (message from Brian LaPonsey on Thu, 02 Dec 2004 14:04:01 +0000)


>I (belatedly) noticed an announcement on the GDB web page that the mcore
>target has been declared obsolete and is going to be deleted from gdb in
>the next release.
>
>I have made some inquiries about the impact this would have on our
>customers, and although the response wasn't huge, it was definitely not
>zero.  There's a small but determined population of developers who
>continue to use gdb with mcore.  It also has a small but growing market
>with small firms working through distributors, as well as a new design
>group in China that prefers to use non-Microsoft tools.
>
>I don't know if one vote matters, but I vote to save the mcore.

If you know of(or can support) someone who agrees to be a maintainer
for the target then you'll have a *much* better chance of pulling
mcore off of the 'obsolete' list.

You'll also want to look to see the support status of mcore in GCC and
Newlib...

-- 
Peter Barada
peter@the-baradas.com


  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-02 14:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-02 14:05 Brian LaPonsey
2004-12-02 14:22 ` Peter Barada [this message]
2004-12-12 15:16   ` Andrew Cagney
2004-12-02 14:23 ` Daniel Jacobowitz

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