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by kevans91 2292 days ago
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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cbmuser 2292 days ago
> 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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kevans91 2292 days ago
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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cbmuser 2292 days ago
I see, thanks. I know the NetBSD guys are still working on their sparc64 port.
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