Re: PowerPC clang announcement

Fantastic!

On 2019-12-26 22:39, Justin Hibbits wrote:
> Hello all PowerPC users,
>
> As of r356113 (__FreeBSD_Version 1300070) Clang is now the default
> compiler for all PowerPC targets.
>
> At this time, powerpcspe requires extra patches available on
> https://reviews.llvm.org/ D69483 and D69484, as well as explicitly
> specifying the TARGET_TRIPLE=powerpc-unknown-freebsd13.0 and
> LLVM_TARGET_TRIPLE=powerpc-unknown-freebsd13.0.  (I would like to hear
> from anyone who *is* using FreeBSD on a powerpcspe platform, off-list).
>
> As mentioned before, the powerpc64 change is also a change to the new
> ELFv2 ABI, which is binary incompatible with the previous ABI.
> Therefore, it is recommended to perform a complete reinstall of the
> system on powerpc64 platforms.
>
> I would like to thank Alfredo Dal'Ava Júnior for all his efforts
> getting us to this point, as well as Brandon Bergren on system
> and kernel work, and Piotr Kubaj, and Mark Linimon for getting ports
> into shape for the transition.  Anyone else I forgot, I do apologize,
> this has been a long effort, with many involved.
>
> - Justin
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