[LLVMdev] Question about SPARC target status

[Peter Shugalev]

Hi,

Luke K. Dalessandro wrote:
> llvm-gcc isn't prepared to compile for a SPARC target. This includes lack 
> of complete FP support, and no implementation of the SPARC ABI which means 
> that function arguments aren't passed correctly and you probably can't 
> call any precompiled code that assumes the SPARC ABI. I will be working on 
> fixing this for sparc-solaris, but not sparc64.

I thought llvm-gcc isn't meant to compile for specific target (at least 
with -emit-llvm flag I'm using).

Speaking of SPARC ABI can I still call non-FP external (i.e. compiled 
with regular non-llvm gcc to native sparc binary) functions from within 
LLVM code? Or ABI is competely broken?


> LLVM code generation doesn't appear to correctly implement atomic 
> builtins, but that should be a trivial thing to fix (so they tell me).

Do you mean calls like __gnu_cxx::__exchange_and_add ?

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Best Regards
Peter Shugalev