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From: Richard Biener <richard.guenther@gmail.com>
To: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>
Cc: Ramana Radhakrishnan <ramana.radhakrishnan@foss.arm.com>,
		Andreas Tobler <andreast@gcc.gnu.org>,
	GCC Patches <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch wwwdocs] Add aarch64-none-linux-gnu as a primary platform for GCC-7
Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 09:01:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFiYyc04WYGawMfhqXT+RqZer0XatbJ=gXwabfDT9HDHU=HVvQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.20.1605232342040.2874@anthias.pfeifer.com>

On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 12:20 AM, Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 23 May 2016, Richard Biener wrote:
>> So I propose to demote -freebsd to secondary and use
>> i686-unknown-freebsd (or x86_64-unknown-freebsd?).
>>
>> Gerald, Andreas, can you comment on both issues?  Esp. i386
>> is putting quite some burden on libstdc++ and atomics support
>> for example.
>
> As Jeff noted, i386 actually is the "marketing" name used for the
> platform, GCC has been defaulting to i486 for ages, and I upgraded
> to i586 last year:
>
>     2015-11-15  Gerald Pfeifer  <gerald@pfeifer.com>
>
>         * config/i386/freebsd.h (SUBTARGET32_DEFAULT_CPU): Change to i586.
>         Remove support for FreeBSD 5 and earlier.
>
> And, yes, the system compiler on current versions of FreeBSD is
> LLVM (for most platforms including x86).  There is still a fair
> user base, though.
>
> Given the above, do you still see a desire to make this change?

Can we update to a non-marketing name then, like i586-unknown-freebsd please?
config.gcc accepts i[34567]86-*-freebsd*.  It at least confused me.

Richard.

> Gerald

  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-24  9:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-23  9:17 Ramana Radhakrishnan
2016-05-23  9:26 ` Richard Biener
2016-05-23 15:47   ` Jeff Law
2016-05-23 22:21   ` Gerald Pfeifer
2016-05-24  9:01     ` Richard Biener [this message]
2017-03-04 16:40       ` i386-unknown-freebsd -> i586-unknown-freebsd (was: [Patch wwwdocs] Add aarch64-none-linux-gnu as a primary platform for GCC-7) Gerald Pfeifer
2017-03-07 16:34         ` i386-unknown-freebsd -> i586-unknown-freebsd Jeff Law
2017-03-07 20:01           ` Updating config.guess (was: i386-unknown-freebsd -> i586-unknown-freebsd) Gerald Pfeifer
2017-03-13 15:33             ` Updating config.guess Jeff Law
2017-03-18 18:23               ` Gerald Pfeifer
2017-03-04 16:45       ` i386-unknown-freebsd -> i586-unknown-freebsd (was: [Patch wwwdocs] Add aarch64-none-linux-gnu as a primary platform for GCC-7) Gerald Pfeifer
2017-03-07 16:33         ` i386-unknown-freebsd -> i586-unknown-freebsd Jeff Law

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