GCC for Atari

["Nicholas S Castellano" <entropy@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>]

>I just read in the GNU Bulletin that Richard Stallman is no longer the
>central maintainer of GCC;  this is now done by Richard Kenner of New York 
>University who's funded by an informal GCC consortium (which consists of
>Intel, Motorola, TI, and a few other companies).
>
>Perhaps this is the time to integrate the Atari port of GCC into the
>mainstream GCC release?  Or would Atari have to be a member of the GCC
>consortium?

Fascinating.

Personally, I'd really prefer that the integration wait until some of
the kludges are removed from the atari port (specifically, the stuff
for '\' filename separators, and the crufty environment variable stuff
for finding GCC executables, ideally that will all be handled in the
library and via the /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/ARCHITECTURE/VERSION
mechanism, with allowance for a specs file as well)... no, i haven't
started working on this myself :-)

cheers,
entropy

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