On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 12:02 PM, David Brown <david.brown@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 05/09/12 19:36, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: >> >> The way GCC is structured, it requires some support from every >> backend. A bit of machinery could be moved into target-independent >> code, but most of the work is backend-specific. It's not hard, >> though. > > Is it possible to put the common part into the target-independent code, and > leave the backend-specific parts unimplemented for targets that don't (yet) > support it? That way there would be no need for someone to write the > backend code for targets where "naked" is not important. Yes. Ian
