5+ Years Late: LLVM's AMD Excavator Target Was Missing Two Features

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Phoronix: 5+ Years Late: LLVM's AMD Excavator Target Was Missing Two Features

It took until 2020 for an Intel developer to land a patch providing support for two instructions supported by AMD "Excavator" CPUs but not exposed by the "bdver4" target...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...r4-Missing-Two

[eydee]

Intel pushing Bulldozer to make their own crap look better. LOL. Can they still be more pathetic?

AMD should reply with a patch that makes the 80386 run Windows 95 better.

[KaoDome]

Intel pushing Bulldozer to make their own crap look better. LOL. Can they still be more pathetic?

AMD should reply with a patch that makes the 80386 run Windows 95 better.

Okay...

[loganj]

so amd only cares for gcc?

[CochainComplex]

so amd only cares for gcc?

maybe 5+ ago. clang was less common. just remember it is just a few month ago that the Kernel can be compiled successfully with clang.

[CochainComplex]

the good guy meme would fit perfectly.

[ktecho]

Intel pushing Bulldozer to make their own crap look better. LOL. Can they still be more pathetic?

AMD should reply with a patch that makes the 80386 run Windows 95 better.

I cannot see any logic in your post, but it's probably my
fault. Or maybe you're 12 years old.

[JustinTurdeau]

Intel pushing Bulldozer to make their own crap look better. LOL. Can they still be more pathetic?

Take your meds.

[kravemir]

maybe 5+ ago. clang was less common. just remember it is just a few month ago that the Kernel can be compiled successfully with clang.

I had developed a toy frontend for LLVM and also a tiny frontend for GCC. It's much more comfortable to use LLVM and it doesn't require to fork the whole jungle, also it doesn't require to work with obscure makefiles. Also, GCC impairs developer's freedom heavily. LLVM is the future of OSS compilers.

[xxmitsu]

Isn't rdrand buggy and they decided to disable it ? https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...isable-15h-16h