[LLVMdev] Why llvm-gcc/g++ does not support the 64-bit SPARC ABI (-m64)

[Owen Anderson]

At guess, because nobody has implemented it yet.  Patches welcome!

-Owen

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On Mar 12, 2009, at 9:59 AM, Cathy Guo <CGuo at ibasis.net> wrote:

> My application is 64bit running on Solaris 10 with Sparc. I'd like  
> to use llvm-gcc/g++ to compile it to make it run faster. But in the  
> Release Notes of the latest LLVM release, it says
>
> Known problems with the SPARC back-end
>
> * The SPARC backend only supports the 32-bit SPARC ABI (-m32); it  
> does not support the 64-bit SPARC ABI (-m64).
>
> Why it doesn't support 64bit on sparc?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> Cathy Guo
>
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