[cfe-commits] r157626 - /cfe/trunk/lib/Basic/Targets.cpp

[Roman Divacky]

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 11:22:56AM -0700, Chandler Carruth wrote:
> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Roman Divacky <rdivacky at freebsd.org>wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 11:12:37AM -0700, Chandler Carruth wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Roman Divacky <rdivacky at freebsd.org>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Author: rdivacky
> > > > Date: Tue May 29 11:10:50 2012
> > > > New Revision: 157626
> > > >
> > > > URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=157626&view=rev
> > > > Log:
> > > > Sparc is bigendian.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Testcase?
> > >
> > > We have woefully poor testing of sparc targets; we should add tests first
> > > if there is going to be on-going maintenance of the target.
> >
> > I was just exploring what the status of sparc port is and noticed that. I
> > dont
> > think we test this stuff anywhere.
> >
> > I also think that the sparc port is in quite a bad shape (32bit only, and
> > even
> > that is not exactly usable, no maintainer or anyone who cares, basically no
> > commit activity) :(
> 
> 
> I know the SPARC backend was saved by some folks interested largely in
> academia...
> 
> I would suggest that we either remove all SPARC support from the Clang FE,
> or get the same folks to step forward and write at least basic sanity tests
> for it. Care to write up an email and send it to cfe-dev and llvmdev?

I really was just exploring a bit the status. I also mailed the guy
(http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~venkatra/) who claimed he's willing to fix any
sparc bug in llvm last week and got no reply. 

The removal of sparc was discussed quite recently actually:

http://old.nabble.com/is-anyone-using-the-sparc-backend--td32721152.html