[llvm-dev] LLVM on IRIX

[Bruce Hoult via llvm-dev]

A relatively small Origin 350. They could have 32 CPUs, which would make
them quite a beast in those days. With only four 600 MHz CPUs in 2003 I
imagine a quad core one wouldn't have any performance advantage over the
2.0 GHz PowerPC G5s and Athlon64's that became available at about the same
time. Interesting that it will apparently have a PowerPC CPU running Linux
as a management processor! But that's a digression...

What is the primary problem with newer FOSS software? Is it just use of
recent C++ features? I believe gcc 4.8 has substantial but not quite
complete support for C++11. If that's what the problem is then you mostly
need Clang. LLVM does already have a currently-supported MIPS back end.
Does it cover the processor variant you need?

You said GCC support was removed. Are you still supported in binutils?

On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 12:56 PM, Kazuo Kuroi via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> Greetings LLVM Developers,
>
> My name is Kazuo, I’m the head of the largest Silicon Graphics IRIX
> community on the internet. I’m approaching this mailing list to see if any
> MIPS developers who hang out here are interested in developing the
> LLVM/Clang Compiler system for IRIX.
>
> There’s a growing need as GCC removed support for us from 4.8, over six
> years ago and since then we’ve absolutely languished as a community with a
> growing number of FOSS that refuses to compile using the native CC or the
> version of GCC we have.
>
> I can’t offer any money to anyone interested, but we have a quad CPU
> R16000 Origin 350 that is SSH-accessible and we would happily offer access
> to that for anyone who wanted to help us.
>
> Unfortunately, we lack anyone in our community with significant compiler
> experience to do this ourselves, and I’m more of a sysadmin/minor code
> hacker than a developer.
>
> Anyone who is interested can let me know,  the SGI community would be
> grateful for any help at all!
>
> Best
> Kazuo Kuroi
>
>
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