[cfe-dev] reviving LLVM on Solaris x86/SPARC platform

[Fedor Sergeev via cfe-dev]

Greetings all,

as some of you surely know, current state of LLVM on Solaris platform is far
from being ideal.

Recently here at Oracle we have started putting effort into actually
making LLVM/Clang on Solaris (both x86 and SPARC) a good citizen.

We have both intent and (finally) legal permissions to contribute into the trunk,
and we have already developed a set of - now small and hopefully clean ;) - patches
that address main deficiencies:

    - makefiles tweaked to be functional in all compilation modes
      (say, for ninja build)

    - Clang's gcc toolchain detection fixed
      (especially to handle multiple gccs installed on a system vs. hardcoded paths)

    - TLS relocations handling for SPARC fixed

    - JIT relocations handling for SPARC implemented

After these changes we are able to bootstrap clang (which is completely
impossible with current trunk on SPARC/Solaris).
As well as successfully build/test serious apps like MySQL.

We would very much like to hit 5.0 release with these changes,
however with currently published schedule it is clear that we 
will need your extra help and will to review/integrate our patches.

I'm thus asking for advice - how can we possibly make that 5.0 target without
dropping quality of reviews? Any volunteers to help specifically with these reviews?

Note, that we dont have commit rights yet...

Thanks!

Fedor Sergeev, Oracle compiler teamm