Hi, I've been working on a version of the gcc compiler for the PDP10 architecture for some while now and since it's approaching the stage of being generally usable, my managers and I have agreed that it's time to make its existence known. It may be a good while before things are at a state where my changes can be folded back into the general development tree, but I'd like to start laying the groundwork for that eventuality and discussing with the relevant folks how best to capture the PDP10 dependencies so that my customizations can be limited to the expected places. The PDP10 is an unusual architecture in many respects and to get the compiler to function has required customization through much of the code that would normally be considered machine independent. My port is currently based on the GCC4.1.1 distribution. There are a handful of testsuite tests that fail that I hope to debug before rolling forward to the 4.2.1 release. My experience so far has been that advancing the base version can cause significant problems and of course one goal of folding my changes back into the base is to alleviate this problem. Comments, advice, suggestions about who I should be corresponding with are all welcome. You're welcome to respond to me either directly or on the relevant gcc list. I'm now subscribed to gcc, gcc-help and gcc-announce. Martin Chaney chaney@xxxxxxx
