clang and sparc64

[Nathan Whitehorn]

On 09/17/12 01:36, Craig Butler wrote:
> Hi Folks
>
> What is the latest on clang on the ultrasparc powered boxes ??
>
> I remember reading something on freebsd-questions@ that clang doesn't
> compile on sparc64.
>
> If the project pushes ahead and makes that the defacto compiler wont we
> be a bit stuck ?
>
> I'll try a clang build later today after my Netra X1 dev machine has
> finished updating...
>
> Kind Regards
>
> Craig Butler
>
>
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I believe that the main problem is that the LLVM SPARC backend is, as 
far as I can tell, unmaintained and bitrotting. It also mostly only 
produces 32-bit code -- I think there were some experimental patches for 
SPARC64, but I don't know what happened with those in the end.
-Nathan