LLVM Clang Mainlines Support For The Motorola 68000 Series (m68k)

[phoronix]

Phoronix: LLVM Clang Mainlines Support For The Motorola 68000 Series (m68k)

If it wasn't odd enough during these pandemic times seeing Nintendo 64 support upstreamed into the Linux 5.12 kernel a few weeks back, the latest vintage hardware seeing open-source support still going on is the Motorola 68000 series 32-bit processors. LLVM/Clang today merged the "m68k" target for these three decade old processors...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LLVM-Mainlines-m68k

[AlDunsmuir]

This is largely to support pre-PowerPC (Old World) Macs. The later 68xxx processors have MMUs and can run Linux.

[AlDunsmuir]

Article ends a tad suddenly...

[skeevy420]

The m68k support for LLVM/Clang was

found stashed away in R2-D2's memory banks.

[AJenbo]

Og good encountered a build error with GCC for m68k yesterday that broak the CI on our Diablo project

[Chewi]

Last time I looked at this, various bits weren't hooked up for Rust to work. I don't know whether this news means they are now. If so, I may finally be able to run some Rust code on my Amiga. We write a lot of Rust at work so I've long joked that I'll do this one day.

[user556]

It's a good four decades.

[tildearrow]

Article ends a tad suddenly...

Here:

The m68k support for LLVM/Clang was <a href="https://github.com/search?p=1&q=org%3Allvm+m68k&type=Commits>merged</a> across a set of eight patches today into the mainline code-base for LLVM 13 that will be released as stable this autumn.</div>

[doragasu]

Anybody said Rust for the SEGA Genesis/Megadrive?

[oleid]

Rust for rusty hardware.
Perfect match