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PEF support for m68k?

Open jduerstock opened this issue 7 years ago • 2 comments

This is more of a feature request than an issue, but is there any plan for PEF m68k support?

Thanks, and keep up the good work.

Jason

jduerstock avatar Sep 01 '17 12:09 jduerstock

No concrete plan yet. It's not trivial; for PPC PEF support, I'm reusing a lot of GCC's AIX support, as PowerPC PEF was originally based on IBM's AIX ABI. PEF m68k is similar, but there is no support for its peculiarities in GCC's m68k backend yet.

Do you have an interesting use case for this?

autc04 avatar Sep 01 '17 13:09 autc04

As one of my myriad of part-time projects, I've been kind of wondering how far Mac OS 8.x could have gone on with the m68k. Being able to use gcc would be a lot less painful for me than fighting with the MPW-related tools. I understand it's not trivial and I appreciate you taking the time to consider it.

Thanks again.

jduerstock avatar Sep 01 '17 13:09 jduerstock