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Would you like to be the PDP11 maintainer for the binutils ?

Alan Modra amodra@gmail.com
Wed Apr 22 03:43:58 GMT 2020 
On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 05:44:28PM -0700, Stephen Casner wrote:
> In gcc/MAINTAINERS I see a long list of specific ports and individuals
> who are maintainers for those ports, but in binutils/MAINTAINERS I did
> not see specific ports or individuals listed.

Look at MAINTAINERS in the next level down binutils/ dir, where you
find objdump.c for example.

> At the instigation of Paul Koning, PDP11 maintainter for gcc, I have
> implemented a first crack at pdp11-elf32 so that we might get C++ to
> work on the PDP11 (I'm stuck on trying to build up the libraries at
> this point).  I also mentioned to you the changes I would like to make
> to nm to show addresses as 4 digits for 16-bit targets and to adjust
> the spacing according to the selected radix.  What is the convention
> to present such changes for review?  Should a PR be filed for each, or
> just propose the change with a patch on binutils@sourceware.org?

The convention is to post to binutils@sourceware.org, and ping weekly
if you get no response.

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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM
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