Hello Mark, sorry for tuning in so late to the GCC 4.3 primary/secondary plattform discussion.
As you probably expect I'll give a vote for s390-ibm-linux-gnu and s390x-ibm-linux-gnu to be marked as gcc secondary plattforms. I think the s390 back end is in a pretty good shape. The languages c,ada,c++,fortran,java,objc and obj-c++ bootstrap fine and are tested regularly. I've set up a gcc daily build posting the testresults of the last 3 gcc branches every day. We have a competent maintainer - Ulrich Weigand and 2 developers at IBM (Wolfgang Gellerich and myself) who are able to spent at least a good part of their time working on the S/390 back-end fixing bugs, developing new features and providing support of new cpus. In the criteria for primary plattforms I've read that primary plattforms have to be "popular systems". Reading this as "widely used" I think that this will be a requirement which mainframes are unlikely to meet in the near future, so I propose to make s390 and s390x secondary plattforms for now. I think this can be important to show users that gcc works reliably on S/390 and that it can be expected to do so in the future as well. Bye, -Andreas-
