Re: changes requesting for GCC 17 Release Criteria (secondary targets)

Janne Blomqvist via Gcc <[email protected]>
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On Tue, Mar 24, 2026 at 11:12 AM Rainer Orth via Gcc <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Dongsheng,
>
> thanks a lot for doing this.
>
> > ### Full Breakdown by Multiarch and GCC Major Version
> >
> > | Rank | Multiarch | Total | GCC 12 | GCC 13 | GCC 14 | GCC 15 | GCC 16 |
> > |------|-----------|-------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|
> [...]
> > | 8 | i686-solaris | 258 | 0 | 0 | 58 | 58 | 142 |
> > | 9 | sparc-solaris | 258 | 0 | 0 | 58 | 58 | 142 |
> [...]
> > | 15 | x86_64-solaris | 67 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 67 |
> > | 16 | sparcv9-solaris | 67 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 67 |
>
> Given those numbers and the fact that sparc-sun-solaris2.11 is already a
> primary platform, I wonder if we should make i386-pc-solaris2.11
> secondary.  Sometimes there are significant differences between SPARC
> and x86 here (often in favor of x86, actually).

My 2c as a bystander these days: If you're planning to add another
solaris target as a secondary platform, please pick x86_64, as AFAIU
none of the upstreams (Oracle or Illumos distros like OpenIndiana)
support anything except sparc and x86_64.

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Janne Blomqvist
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