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David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> schrieb:
> On 11/09/2024 10:54, Michael S wrote:
>> On Tue, 10 Sep 2024 23:51:20 -0000 (UTC)
>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Tue, 10 Sep 2024 07:43:53 GMT, Anton Ertl wrote:
>>>
>>>> [MIPS] has been abandoned and replaced by RISC-V several years ago.
>>>>   
>>>
>>> I’m not so sure the MIPS architecture has been “abandoned”. Last I
>>> heard, it was still shipping hundreds of millions of chips per year.
>> 
>> Care to point to the source of this claim? Two main suppliers of MIPS
>> silicon in this century are Microchip and Cavium (now owned by Marvell).
>> 
>> According to my understanding Microchip's MIPS-based PIC32 line was
>> never as popular as their other offerings.
>
> IMHO a major reason for that is Microchip's insane licensing policy for 
> their development tools - although their compilers are just a minor 
> modification of standard gcc, you have to pay huge amounts if you want 
> to use the full features of the compiler.  (At least now you can enable 
> /some/ optimisation without a paid license.)  It is not even possible to 
> see from the release notes or documentation what version of gcc is 
> provided, though my guess is that it is pretty old (the documentation 
> describes "-std" options up to C++14).

Sounds like a violation of the GPL.  Do they provide the sources?