FreeBSD has removed GCC from its base system

Re:FreeBSD has removed GCC from its base system by kevans91 on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @09:26AM (#22474660)

powerpc64 switched over in late December; sparc64 never made the switch (unfortunately), and mips will make the switch with the introduction of llvm 10.

IIRC powerpc32 is currently using clang with old bfd ld, but lld in llvm 10 may be quickly reaching the point where it's suitable for powerpc32 as well.

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Re:FreeBSD has removed GCC from its base system by cbmuser on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @07:32PM (#22480153)

> sparc64 never made the switch (unfortunately)

Care to elaborate?

We're maintaining sparc64 in Debian Ports and we have smashed quite a number of bugs in the SPARC backend in LLVM.

Are there any issues you are seeing?

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Re:FreeBSD has removed GCC from its base system by kevans91 on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @08:59PM (#22480576)

This is specifically w.r.t. FreeBSD -- nobody put in the effort to maintain it, so it's removed in head/ as of now. As far as I'm aware, no one had tested sparc64/llvm on FreeBSD either.

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Re:FreeBSD has removed GCC from its base system by cbmuser on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @06:19AM (#22482814)

I see, thanks. I know the NetBSD guys are still working on their sparc64 port.

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