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minus-squaremarmulaklinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down2·2 years agoWhat’s wrong with the compiler Rust already has
minus-squarejokeyrhymelinkfedilinkarrow-up13·2 years agoLLVM supports fewer target machines than GCC https://gcc.gnu.org/backends.html has a big table | Characteristics Target | HMSLQNFICBD lqrpbfmgiates -----------+-------------------------- aarch64 | Q q b gia s alpha | ? Q C q mgi e arc | B b gia arm | b ia s avr | L FI l p g bfin | F gi c6x | S CB gi cr16 | L F C g s cris | F B gi s csky | b ia epiphany | C gi s fr30 | ?? FI B pb mg s frv | ?? B b i s gcn | S C D q a e h8300 | FI B g s i386 | Q q b ia ia64 | ? Q C qr b m i iq2000 | ??? FICB b g t lm32 | F g m32c | L FI l b g s m32r | FI b s m68k | pb i mcore | ? FI pb mg s mep | F C b g t s microblaze | CB i s mips | Q CB qr ia s mmix | HM Q C q i e mn10300 | ?? gi s moxie | F g t s msp430 | L FI l b g s nds32 | F C ia s nios2 | C ia nvptx | S Q C q mg e pa | Q CBD qr b i e pdp11 | L IC qr b e pru | L F a s riscv | Q C qr gia rl78 | L F l g s rs6000 | Q C qrpb ia rx | s s390 | Q qr gia e sh | Q CB qrp i sparc | Q CB qr b ia stormy16 | ???L FIC D l b i tilegx | Q C q gi e tilepro | S F C gi e v850 | g a s vax | M I b i e visium | B g t s xtensa | C https://www.llvm.org/Features.html An easily retargettable code generator, which currently supports X86, X86-64, PowerPC, PowerPC-64, ARM, Thumb, SPARC, Alpha, CellSPU, MIPS, MSP430, SystemZ, WebAssembly and XCore.
minus-squarepingvenolinkfedilinkarrow-up14·2 years agoIt’s also good to have multiple compilers to exercise the spec.
minus-squareaurele@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoExcept in this case the compiler is the spec.
minus-squarethervingiOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·edit-22 years agoFrom what understand GCC supports more architectures than LLVM. Also having alternatives is always nice.
What’s wrong with the compiler Rust already has
LLVM supports fewer target machines than GCC
https://gcc.gnu.org/backends.html has a big table
| Characteristics Target | HMSLQNFICBD lqrpbfmgiates -----------+-------------------------- aarch64 | Q q b gia s alpha | ? Q C q mgi e arc | B b gia arm | b ia s avr | L FI l p g bfin | F gi c6x | S CB gi cr16 | L F C g s cris | F B gi s csky | b ia epiphany | C gi s fr30 | ?? FI B pb mg s frv | ?? B b i s gcn | S C D q a e h8300 | FI B g s i386 | Q q b ia ia64 | ? Q C qr b m i iq2000 | ??? FICB b g t lm32 | F g m32c | L FI l b g s m32r | FI b s m68k | pb i mcore | ? FI pb mg s mep | F C b g t s microblaze | CB i s mips | Q CB qr ia s mmix | HM Q C q i e mn10300 | ?? gi s moxie | F g t s msp430 | L FI l b g s nds32 | F C ia s nios2 | C ia nvptx | S Q C q mg e pa | Q CBD qr b i e pdp11 | L IC qr b e pru | L F a s riscv | Q C qr gia rl78 | L F l g s rs6000 | Q C qrpb ia rx | s s390 | Q qr gia e sh | Q CB qrp i sparc | Q CB qr b ia stormy16 | ???L FIC D l b i tilegx | Q C q gi e tilepro | S F C gi e v850 | g a s vax | M I b i e visium | B g t s xtensa | Chttps://www.llvm.org/Features.html
It’s also good to have multiple compilers to exercise the spec.
Except in this case the compiler is the spec.
Holy cow
From what understand GCC supports more architectures than LLVM.
Also having alternatives is always nice.
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