Re: Modern browsers on OpenBSD for PowerPC?

> On Feb 20, 2024, at 5:23=E2=80=AFAM, George Koehler <[email protected]> w=
rote:
>=20
> On Mon, 19 Feb 2024 16:08:36 +0800
> Sergio Had <[email protected]> wrote:
>=20
>> Palemoon and Arctic Fox are non-Rust options. Those should be
>> feasible and reasonably functional.
>=20
> I don't want to discuss Pale Moon,
> https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip/issues/86

I agree, the tone of that message it just ridiculous, but who needs their =
=E2=80=9Cofficial branding=E2=80=9D anyway.
There are forks of Palemoon with perfectly reasonable developers.

>> It may be worth dumping LLVM/Clang in favor of GCC in fact, the
>> latter has way better support for PPC and more reasonable upstream,
>> in my experience.
>=20
> clang runs better than gcc on OpenBSD.  clang, with OpenBSD's patches,
> has features like RETGUARD, https://www.openbsd.org/innovations.html

Surprising, since GCC normally has a better support for non-mainstream plat=
forms.
Especially PowerPC and 32-bit.

> OpenBSD is stuck on old gcc versions, uses gcc 8.4.0 to compile
> Fortran code in powerpc packages.

I noticed that, but assumed that no one just bothered to update it.
I have gcc-13.2.0 on macOS PowerPC.