Hi,
It's been rumoured that H.J. Lu said:
>
> I made a patch for egcs 1.1.2:
>
> ftp://ftp.varesearch.com/pub/support/hjl/egcs/egcs-1.1.2-19990315.diff.gz
I have some (large) patches for i370 (IBM mainframe) support in egcs.
They add support for the ELF binary format; fix a dozen instruction
generation bugs & etc. For example, the fixed compiler will now compile
most of glibc and all of the linux kernel (correctly, even, it seems),
whereas the unpatched compiler core dumps almost immediately.
I've got those patches at http://linas.org/linux/i370 but want to
shuffle a few files around before formally submitting them. There
is also a new binutils there that fixes the support for misc supervisor-mode
instructions (i.e. privledged instructions that the compiler does not
generate but one needs to have when writing kernels...).
--linas
