Re: NetBSD/vax compiler bounty?

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%me.com@localhost>]

> On Apr 16, 2020, at 8:28 AM, Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:
> 
> The first item is simple, the second could be done mostly via cross compiling.
> But I think the expected end result should be that gcc can compile itself
> natively on VAX, which hasn't been true for upstream gcc for more than a
> decade (I guess), and for the patched version in our sources since gcc 4.8

I don't think we can reasonably expect GCC to self-host on VAX.  But a cross-vax-gcc should be able to build a native-val GCC, and that's about as close as we're going to get.

Anyway, I'm certainly willing to contribute some $ to the effort.

-- thorpej