Re: [sdcc-devel] Removing the avr port

[Erik P. <epe...@iv...>]

On Sat, 2025-10-11 at 12:18 +0200, Philipp Klaus Krause wrote:
> Apparently, once, someone worked on an avr port for SDCC. AFAIK, work
> basically stopped 25 years ago, and the port never was useable. There
> are still some leftovors of this in svn, such as the sdcc/src/avr
> directory.
> 
> IMO, we should remove these. I really don't see anyone continuing
> work 
> on this. Even in the unlikely case that someone want to work on an
> avr 
> port for SDCC again, SDCC has changed so much in those 25 years, that
> such a port would have to start from scratch. And if someone really 
> wants to look at the old effort, there is always the svn history.
> 
> Philipp

I believe Sandeep started this before avr support was added to gcc and
then the gcc work superseded it. Since the avr target in gcc is well
supported, dropping the incomplete work for avr here in sdcc seems
reasonable to me as well.

  Erik