Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:13:05 +0200 From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> To: Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [STATUS]: clang/llvm support on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20091012191305.GA9480@alchemy.franken.de> In-Reply-To: <20090924192103.GA84535@freebsd.org> References: <20090924192103.GA84535@freebsd.org>
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On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 09:21:03PM +0200, Roman Divacky wrote: > Hi, > > The clang@freebsd team presents the status of clang/llvm being > able to compile FreeBSD system. The situation as of today > (Sep 24th) is: > > > i386 - kernel boots, world needs little hacks but works > > amd64 - kernel compiles but does not boot, world needs > little hacks > > ppc - broken because of unknown RTLD bug > > other - unknown > > > all other platforms are untested. Ie. this is a regression from the > situation in early spring when we could boot amd64 as well... > > A lot has happened over the spring/summer - amd64 got proper mcmodel=kernel > support, compiler-rt was introduced (paving the way for libgcc replacement), > we ran two experimental ports build to see how clang does there, C++ support > is able to parse devd.cc without warnings, we got kernel working with -O2, > we promoted FreeBSD to be officially supported plaform in LLVM etc. etc. > > We have problems though: we don't have manpower for testing (thats why amd64 > kernel stopped booting) and developers for integrating stuff into FreeBSD > (maintaining ports etc.). So if you are interested in helping please contact > me or join us on IRC in #freebsd-clang on irc.oftc.net. We especially need > amd64 testers (because of the amd64 kernel bug) and people with minor platforms > like arm/mips/sparc to see how clang/llvm performs there and improve that > situation. > Is there any progress on support for 64-bit SPARC-V9 in LLVM as required for sparc64? Marius
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