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The amount of people running gnu make on an Amiga must be close to single digits. Anyone compiling on an Amiga is more likely to be using SAS/C

snvzz 4y ago
Hell no. SAS/C was already dead in the 90s. GCC and VBCC are the options today.
- bogantech 4y ago
  Yes but they're not being run within AmigaOS are they? Anyone using either of those is cross-compiling (hence my comment specifying "on an Amiga") It's unlikely to find many people running GCC on AmigaOS itself so it makes sense to deprecate the support for it
  - snvzz 4y ago
    >Yes but they're not being run within AmigaOS are they? Yes they are. People actually use their Amiga computers and love doing so. Outside of modern web browsing, they are very capable machines. Cross-compilation does definitely have some users, but is complex and prone to issues. And we're far from a situation where these people don't care; LLVM m68k support was merged recently. It was an effort funded mostly by Amiga and Atari ST users.
    - bogantech 4y ago
      > Cross-compilation does definitely have some users, but is complex and prone to issues. What complexity and issues? Everyone I know is developing their Amiga software, libraries, devices etc using things like bebbo gcc or vbcc on their PCs > And we're far from a situation where these people don't care; LLVM m68k support was merged recently. It was an effort funded mostly by Amiga and Atari ST users. Where can I find an LLVM build for AmigaOS m68k though? Not on Aminet I suppose anyone using that must be running it on a pc I still use my Amiga constantly but I'm not going to pretend there's more than a handful of people actually running bleeding edge versions of GCC under AmigaOS 3.1 Just because they no longer support GCC builds for Amiga doesn't mean it won't be able to build for the target just that you won't be running newer versions of GCC under AmigaOS itself

snvzz 4y ago

Hell no. SAS/C was already dead in the 90s. GCC and VBCC are the options today.

bogantech 4y ago
Yes but they're not being run within AmigaOS are they? Anyone using either of those is cross-compiling (hence my comment specifying "on an Amiga") It's unlikely to find many people running GCC on AmigaOS itself so it makes sense to deprecate the support for it
- snvzz 4y ago
  >Yes but they're not being run within AmigaOS are they? Yes they are. People actually use their Amiga computers and love doing so. Outside of modern web browsing, they are very capable machines. Cross-compilation does definitely have some users, but is complex and prone to issues. And we're far from a situation where these people don't care; LLVM m68k support was merged recently. It was an effort funded mostly by Amiga and Atari ST users.
  - bogantech 4y ago
    > Cross-compilation does definitely have some users, but is complex and prone to issues. What complexity and issues? Everyone I know is developing their Amiga software, libraries, devices etc using things like bebbo gcc or vbcc on their PCs > And we're far from a situation where these people don't care; LLVM m68k support was merged recently. It was an effort funded mostly by Amiga and Atari ST users. Where can I find an LLVM build for AmigaOS m68k though? Not on Aminet I suppose anyone using that must be running it on a pc I still use my Amiga constantly but I'm not going to pretend there's more than a handful of people actually running bleeding edge versions of GCC under AmigaOS 3.1 Just because they no longer support GCC builds for Amiga doesn't mean it won't be able to build for the target just that you won't be running newer versions of GCC under AmigaOS itself