X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.4 (patch 14) "Reasonable Discussion" XEmacs Lucid FCC: ~/mail/archive --text follows this line-- There are plenty of day one bugs in the pdp11 backend. Some have been fixed recently, others remain. It may be that the 2.95 version did a better job of float handling than the early 3.x series, but I don't think it actually gets it right. And there were problems with -(SP) and (SP)+ modes for bytes... The calculation of instruction lengths (to select between branches and "long branches") is also wrong. I volunteered to take up the pdp11 backend maintainer slot, and I'm trying to get some of these fixes in. It would sure help if I could get explicit input. "It sucks" is not data I can use to improve what's there. If people know of problems, please submit bug reports. (Bug reports submitted by the standard gcc bug submittal process would be best.) By the way, the gcc backend generates either "dec" or "unix" output; the "dec" output isn't technically valid dec syntax but it IS valid gas syntax. paul