[STATUS]: clang/llvm support on FreeBSD

[Marius Strobl]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 09:21:03PM +0200, Roman Divacky wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The clang at freebsd team presents the status of clang/llvm being
> able to compile FreeBSD system. The situation as of today
> (Sep 24th) is:
> 
> 
> 	i386 - kernel boots, world needs little hacks but works
> 
> 	amd64 - kernel compiles but does not boot, world needs
> 		little hacks
> 
> 	ppc - broken because of unknown RTLD bug
> 
> 	other - unknown
> 
> 
> all other platforms are untested. Ie. this is a regression from the
> situation in early spring when we could boot amd64 as well...
> 
> A lot has happened over the spring/summer - amd64 got proper mcmodel=kernel
> support, compiler-rt was introduced (paving the way for libgcc replacement),
> we ran two experimental ports build to see how clang does there, C++ support
> is able to parse devd.cc without warnings, we got kernel working with -O2,
> we promoted FreeBSD to be officially supported plaform in LLVM etc. etc.
> 
> We have problems though: we don't have manpower for testing (thats why amd64
> kernel stopped booting) and developers for integrating stuff into FreeBSD
> (maintaining ports etc.). So if you are interested in helping please contact
> me or join us on IRC in #freebsd-clang on irc.oftc.net. We especially need
> amd64 testers (because of the amd64 kernel bug) and people with minor platforms
> like arm/mips/sparc to see how clang/llvm performs there and improve that
> situation.
> 

Is there any progress on support for 64-bit SPARC-V9 in LLVM as
required for sparc64?

Marius