[LLVMdev] is anyone using the sparc backend?

[Chris Lattner]

On Oct 25, 2011, at 3:17 PM, Pawel Wodnicki wrote:

> Chris,
> 
>> FYI, I completely agree that we shouldn't remove the sparc target.  However, it is currently unmaintained, and has some pretty glaring bugs.  Is anyone interested in stepping up to maintain the target?
>> 
>> -Chris
> 
> We can not let it die and I volunteer to keep the Sparc alive!
> 
> My SPARCstation pizzaboxes can be ready for action in a day or two.

Fantastic.  A great place to start would be to investigate / screen various sparc related bugs in bugzilla to see if they are still relevant and present:
http://llvm.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=sparc

This bug looks pretty fatal if it is actually real:
http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=10938

-Chris