svn commit: r353936 - head/contrib/llvm/tools/clang/lib/Driver/ToolChains/Arch

Ed Maste emaste at freebsd.org
Thu Oct 24 13:08:22 UTC 2019


On Thu, 24 Oct 2019 at 04:26, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> Why i686, not i586?  i486 lacking 64-bit atomics is a sound and valid
> reason, but I don't understand why i586 wasn't chosen, and quick review
> of that -arch thread did not help.  Could you shed some more light here?

i686 as a minimum allows a switch to PAE page tables. In my opinion we
should still allow building FreeBSD for i586 (and I would like to have
such a case in our hardware CI lab), but the default for the
installation images and prebuilt packages should be i686.


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