[llvm-commits] CVS: llvm/docs/CFEBuildInstrs.html

[Chris Lattner]

Changes in directory llvm/docs:

CFEBuildInstrs.html updated: 1.54 -> 1.55
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Log message:

Encourage use of the V8 ABI over the V9 ABI.


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Diffs of the changes:  (+5 -5)

 CFEBuildInstrs.html |   10 +++++-----
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)


Index: llvm/docs/CFEBuildInstrs.html
diff -u llvm/docs/CFEBuildInstrs.html:1.54 llvm/docs/CFEBuildInstrs.html:1.55
--- llvm/docs/CFEBuildInstrs.html:1.54	Mon Oct 24 11:37:24 2005
+++ llvm/docs/CFEBuildInstrs.html	Sun Feb  5 00:44:17 2006
@@ -179,9 +179,9 @@
 </p>
 
 <p>
-The SPARC V8 backend is still beta quality software.  Unless you are working on
-the SPARC V8 backend, you should specify sparcv9 on the configure command line,
-as shown below. Also,
+The SPARC V8 ABI support is more robust than the V9 ABI support and can generate
+SPARC V9 code.  It is highly recommended that you use the V8 ABI with LLVM, as
+shown below.  Also,
 note that Solaris has trouble with various wide (multibyte) character
 functions from C as referenced from C++, so we typically configure with
 --disable-c-mbchar (cf. <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR206">Bug 206</a>).
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@
 <pre>
  % cd build
  % ../src/configure --prefix=$CFEINSTALL --disable-threads --disable-nls \
-   --disable-shared --enable-languages=c,c++ --host=sparcv9-sun-solaris2.8 \
+   --disable-shared --enable-languages=c,c++ --host=sparc-sun-solaris2.8 \
    --disable-c-mbchar --program-prefix=llvm-
  % gmake all; gmake install
 </pre>
@@ -357,7 +357,7 @@
 
   Brian Gaeke<br>
   <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu">LLVM Compiler Infrastructure</a><br>
-  Last modified: $Date: 2005/10/24 16:37:24 $
+  Last modified: $Date: 2006/02/05 06:44:17 $
 </address>
 
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