Re: GNUstep on OpenBSD alpha

[Sebastian Reitenbach]

On Friday, July 18, 2014 11:06 CEST, David Chisnall <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 17 Jul 2014, at 18:49, Sebastian Reitenbach <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Unfortunately, there is no alpha backend in llvm, so its build
> > with gcc, like its done on macppc platform.
>
> There was an Alpha back end for LLVM, but it was removed because no one cared 
> about it enough to maintain it and Alpha is basically a dead architecture at 
> this point.  Given how simple the Alpha ISA is, it wouldn't be too difficult 
> to resurrect it, but I doubt anyone will.  It's not like anyone is trying to 
> sell new Alpha systems now.  We dropped Alpha support in FreeBSD a while ago 
> for the same reason (and Alpha was the first 64-bit system to be tier 1 for 
> us).

yeah, a bit of googling I found that too, that it got removed, something about 
2 years ago.

Sebastian

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> David
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