Re: [Patch wwwdocs] Add aarch64-none-linux-gnu as a primary platform for GCC-7

[Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>]

On 05/23/2016 03:26 AM, Richard Biener wrote:
> On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 11:16 AM, Ramana Radhakrishnan
> <ramana.radhakrishnan@foss.arm.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The Steering Committee has decided to add aarch64-none-linux-gnu as a primary platform for GCC-7. This reflects the increasing popularity of the port and the increased general availability of hardware. I also took the opportunity of creating a GCC-7 criteria page at the same time.
>>
>> Applied.
>
> Sorry to hijack the thread but I continue to notice that we have
> i386-unknown-freebsd as a primary target.  I notice here
> the 'i386' (the only primary target still explicitely listing that
> sub-target) and the fact that freebsd switched to LLVM as
> far as I know.
>
> 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.
The target may claim i386, but it's actually i486+ so we don't have any 
real issues around atomics.  This came up in 2014.

We can look at demoting FreeBSD again; when we looked at it in 2014 it 
wasn't seen as a particularly useful thing to do.  But I'm open to 
revisiting.

jeff