[llvm-branch-commits] [NFCI][ELF][Mips] Refactor MipsGotSection to avoid explicit writes (PR #150730)

Jessica Clarke via llvm-branch-commits llvm-branch-commits at lists.llvm.org
Sun Jul 27 19:10:39 PDT 2025


jrtc27 wrote:

> > It's indeed very difficult to find folks still concerned with MIPS... I believe only one company is still actively contributing to the MIPS backend in LLVM... @wzssyqa
> > Besides the ClangBuiltLinux maintainer and the OpenBSD maintainer continue to support MIPS.
> 
> It's a catch 22 when the linker has never been feature complete / bug free enough to be usable. For OpenBSD it's the only arch we currently don't use as a linker due to issues / bugs.

Hm, that surprises me. We got it to a good enough point to be usable as the system linker for FreeBSD, before MIPS was dropped as a supported architecture.

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/150730


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