On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 12:20 AM, Gerald Pfeifer <ger...@pfeifer.com> wrote: > On Mon, 23 May 2016, Richard Biener wrote: >> So I propose to demote -freebsd to secondary and use >> i686-unknown-freebsd (or x86_64-unknown-freebsd?). >> >> Gerald, Andreas, can you comment on both issues? Esp. i386 >> is putting quite some burden on libstdc++ and atomics support >> for example. > > As Jeff noted, i386 actually is the "marketing" name used for the > platform, GCC has been defaulting to i486 for ages, and I upgraded > to i586 last year: > > 2015-11-15 Gerald Pfeifer <ger...@pfeifer.com> > > * config/i386/freebsd.h (SUBTARGET32_DEFAULT_CPU): Change to i586. > Remove support for FreeBSD 5 and earlier. > > And, yes, the system compiler on current versions of FreeBSD is > LLVM (for most platforms including x86). There is still a fair > user base, though. > > Given the above, do you still see a desire to make this change?
Can we update to a non-marketing name then, like i586-unknown-freebsd please? config.gcc accepts i[34567]86-*-freebsd*. It at least confused me. Richard. > Gerald
