Hi Mark,
On Sun, May 6, 2018 at 4:31 PM, Mark Millard via freebsd-ppc <freebsd-...@freebsd.org> wrote: > https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-8/changes.html reports: > > • Support for the powerpc*-*-*spe* target ports which have been > recently unmaintained and untested in GCC has been declared obsolete in GCC 8 > as announced here. Unless there is activity to revive them, the next release > of GCC will have their sources permanently removed. > > > Side note: Mixed with clang's powerpc family status for buildworld, > such as ignoring __builtin_eh_return so that thrown C++ exceptions > will not work for the world so built, powerpc*-*-*spe* looks to > have a substantial toolchain problems going forward. > > === > Mark Millard > marklmi26-fbsd at yahoo.com > ( dsl-only.net went > away in early 2018-Mar) I'm aware that gcc8 is deprecating powerpc*spe targets. However, the architecture itself will exist through at least 2025, as chips are guaranteed to be produced until at least that time (part of Freescale/NXP's longevity program). Also, I have some patches in review adding SPE support to LLVM, and will likely be committing them in the next month after I get final reviews and rebase. I'm hoping powerpc support gets enhanced to the point of full support before too long, so we can switch powerpc* targets entirely to clang/llvm. However, we need compiler people who could invest time into doing the work. - Justin _______________________________________________ freebsd-toolchain@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-toolchain To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-toolchain-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
