Clang Is Now Self-Hosting On Linux/FreeBSD SPARC64

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Clang Is Now Self-Hosting On Linux/FreeBSD SPARC64

For those users with SPARC64 hardware, LLVM's Clang compiler has received support for this old architecture...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTU5MDE

[sturmflut]

Old architecture? SPARC64 still powers some of the biggest machines and new CPUs come out every year. The K Supercomputer is powered by SPARC, as are Oracle Servers.

[Annabel]

SPARC64... old

[toguro123]

Old?

What do you mean old? This architecture is much newer than x86 and is in continous development.

[mark45]

Clang is now self-hosting, hoping here it doesn't become self-aware.

[DanL]

Clang is now self-hosting, hoping here it doesn't become self-aware.

Skynet (c), powered by Clang

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Old architecture? SPARC64 still powers some of the biggest machines and new CPUs come out every year. The K Supercomputer is powered by SPARC, as are Oracle Servers.

If only one could afford this [http://www.oracle.com/us/products/se...es/index.html]

or one of these babies: [http://www.seamicro.com/SM15000]

One can dream without running into the likes of a CRAY.

Yes, the SPARC64 is improved immensely after Oracle bought Sun Microsystems.

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Clang is now self-hosting, hoping here it doesn't become self-aware.

It won't be with anything provided by Google and it's AI efforts.

[cb88]

If only one could afford this [http://www.oracle.com/us/products/se...es/index.html]

or one of these babies: [http://www.seamicro.com/SM15000]

One can dream without running into the likes of a CRAY.

Yes, the SPARC64 is improved immensely after Oracle bought Sun Microsystems.

.... Well when they get 32bit support and Solaris it would be able to run on a Cray CS6400... 64 way SMP @ 95Mhz and 16Gb of Ram. Of course not all of them were maxed out. In the meantime it'll just have to be happy on my SS20 @ 2x85Mhz. I'm glad to have a faster compiler that will someday work on my T2000 also.

A CS6400 would be far to large to own personally... but I sure would like to have an SC2000E 20 way SMP I suppose that'll only ever happen if I end up emulating one in FPGA.