From: John Criswell Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 20:54:44 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Add a note about SPARC V8. X-Git-Url: http://plrg.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=af94d58665ee1fc313487c189ae747ff5551a51e;p=oota-llvm.git Add a note about SPARC V8. git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@21981 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8 --- diff --git a/docs/CFEBuildInstrs.html b/docs/CFEBuildInstrs.html index 0622824956a..ffec8105048 100644 --- a/docs/CFEBuildInstrs.html +++ b/docs/CFEBuildInstrs.html @@ -170,8 +170,15 @@ of permissions. Specify a path into which LLVM can be installed (e.g.

Solaris/SPARC:

-For Solaris/SPARC, LLVM only supports the SPARC V9 architecture. Therefore, -the configure command line should specify sparcv9, as shown below. Also, +The GCC front-end can be configured for either SPARC V8 (32 bit) or SPARC V9 (64 +bit). This changes, among other things, the sizes of integer types and the +macros defined for conditional compilation. +

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+The SPARC V8 backend is still beta quality software. Unless you are working on +the SPARC V8 backend, you should specify sparcv9 on the configure command line, +as shown below. Also, note that Solaris has trouble with various wide (multibyte) character functions from C as referenced from C++, so we typically configure with --disable-c-mbchar (cf. Bug 206).