[llvm-dev] PowerPC LLVM support much appreciated

[Nemanja Ivanovic via llvm-dev]

Bringing back support for Darwin/PowerPC is of course possible, but such
undertakings are not free. Aside from the effort to bring it back, there is
the effort of maintaining that support as the PowerPC back end continues to
be developed for supported platforms (Linux, AIX, FreeBSD). So in order to
consider bringing it back, we would really need to understand the use case
- now and in the future.

On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 4:07 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> On 10/22/21 09:50, Qiu Chaofan via llvm-dev wrote:
> > Darwin support in PowerPC backend was deprecated in LLVM 8.0.0 and some
> was
> > removed in later releases. So you need an earlier LLVM version to
> generate
> > code on Darwin PowerPC, which may not be fully compatible with latest
> rustc.
>
> I don't think it would take much to bring back support for Darwin/PowerPC
> as
> long as the generic support for Darwin and PowerPC is still present in LLVM
> and Rust.
>
> I mean, we have support for M68k ;-).
>
> Adrian
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