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PATCH: support for NEC SX architecture

Dave Korn dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com
Wed Jun 3 14:59:00 GMT 2009 
Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com> writes:
> 
>> Jaka Močnik wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 12:56 +0200, Tristan Gingold wrote:
>>>> BTW: in there a documentation for the cpu ?
>>> sure there is. ;) it is unfortunately not (or, better, is not supposed
>>> to be) publicly available. however, asking google about it, you just
>>> might find something. ;)
>>   All of a sudden I'm uncertain whether it's suitable to include support for a
>> somewhat private undocumented target in FSF sources.  I don't know if there's
>> a policy about it but it stands out from other targets in this regard.  Do you
>> have any idea how many of these supercomputers there are in use out there?
> 
> I think it's OK.  In effect a public binutils/gcc port documents the
> target.

  I'll defer to your greater experience here; if you're happy it's OK, I have
no objection.

> What does tend to happen with these private ports is that the maintainer
> changes jobs, the port bitrots, and gets removed.

  This also sounds like the voice of experience speaking :-/  Opening the
documentation would be one way NEC could help avoid that happening.

    cheers,
      DaveK
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