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On Friday, 12 October 2012 13:45:20 UTC+1, Simon Clubley  wrote:

> Do you happen to know what bits have been removed from the FSF MIPS tree ?

I know of one MIPS INSN macros that was removed, I notified the PIC32 GCC maintainer on Github about it, there could be a ton more. I don't know as this stuff isn't documented and the source *is not* documentation in this case.
 
> Is it something which affects C code as well or just any future potential
> 
> Ada port ?

It's code gen, so all front-ends.

> The PIC32MX MCUs are also on my list of things to look at in the future
> and it would be nice to be able to use the mainline FSF gcc version instead
> of the Microchip branch. It would be even nicer to be able to run Ada on

Yup, and seeing as GCC can generate MIPS16e it should be possible.

Luke.