Re: OpenBSD ports update

[Sebastian Reitenbach]

On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 13:41 CET, David Chisnall 
<David.Chisnall@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote: 
 
> On 29 Oct 2013, at 06:43, "Sebastian Reitenbach" 
> <sebastia@l00-bugdead-prods.de> wrote:
> 
> > Due to clang's ability to produce working binaries on macppc, macppc
> > ports kept the status quo and are still compiling with gcc-4.2.1.
> 
> I think you mean inability?

Indeed, I meant inability ;)

> 
> > What would be the best next platform to tackle? Armv7, loongson, mips64, 
> > sparc(64)?
> 
> libobjc2 has assembly fast paths for ARMv6+ and MIPS64.  They're tested by me 
> with clang on MIPS n64 and ARMv7, although I haven't tried building all of 
> GNUstep on either platform yet.

I don't have arm HW around, but I have two mips64, a good old SGI Indigo, and 
and SGI Origin 3000.
I may try on those if I actually find time for it, unfortunately both are not 
notebook sized and therefore not really suited to carry around with me ;)

cheers,
Sebastian

> 
> We're now able to build a complete FreeBSD base system for PowerPC64 with 
> LLVM/Clang, but the kernel only boots if compiled at -O0.  Hopefully by LLVM 
> 3.5 we'll be able to switch completely to Clang there, although PowerPC32 
> support is still lagging a bit.
> 
> David
>