[PATCH] D77672: Support a few more SPARCv9 relocations

Thu Apr 9 13:50:36 PDT 2020

brad added a comment.

In D77672#1967700 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D77672#1967700>, @MaskRay wrote:

> My immediate reaction is "isn't Sparc an abandoned architecture?" See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARC and https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-sparc64/2020-January/010192.html
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> Though, no objection. You may still need some basic tests, similar to `test/ELF/ppc32-*` I tried hard to keep the number of tests small yet complete. Does sparc64 use TLS variant 2?

For FreeBSD that is the case. FreeBSD/sparc64 always seemed to be on life support. Unlike FreeBSD / NetBSD, OpenBSD's sparc64 port is fully supported and supports the latest and greatest with regard to sparc64.

We're very close to switching to Clang as the system compiler on sparc64.

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