On Friday, July 18, 2014 11:06 CEST, David Chisnall <thera...@sucs.org> wrote: > On 17 Jul 2014, at 18:49, Sebastian Reitenbach > <sebas...@l00-bugdead-prods.de> 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 > > David > > -- > This email complies with ISO 3103 > _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev
