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

Hi Janne,

> 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.

Solaris is always bi-arch, both x86 and sparc, and so would be this.
I've often found that 32-bit-default builds catch errors that are
missing in 64-bit-default ones.

	Rainer

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