Woodruff: Weird architectures weren't supported to begin with

Posted Mar 1, 2021 22:24 UTC (Mon) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
In reply to: Woodruff: Weird architectures weren't supported to begin with by rodgerd
Parent article: Woodruff: Weird architectures weren't supported to begin with

No, I didn't miss it, not after decades of participating in gcc development back when many more active architectures were in use than currently, because it was the height of the Unix wars then (I 'm no longer active in gcc and haven't been for some time). Often bugs would only show up on some platforms. If there's an issue that only shows up on one platform, it might be an invalid assumption, it might be a compiler bug. Bugs on the minor platforms didn't hold up releases; upstream cannot promise that ports will work and can't pretend to. The major platforms had organizations willing to support developers using those platforms, the minority platforms were on their own. That was always understood. But embedded platforms are more likely to have unusual processors.

Pretty much the entire reason for the fight the author's rant is responding to has to do with lack of Rust support on some platforms. The point is that this is a fixable issue.