From: Roman Divacky Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 17:12:49 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Clarify the status of PowerPC support. X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cd7b0f02910d416a8a5de6752cc8a91e7f94cc24;p=clang Clarify the status of PowerPC support. git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/cfe/trunk@190533 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8 --- diff --git a/docs/UsersManual.rst b/docs/UsersManual.rst index 73f6a67560..05d8f2715f 100644 --- a/docs/UsersManual.rst +++ b/docs/UsersManual.rst @@ -1313,11 +1313,19 @@ C++, Objective-C, and Objective-C++ codebases. Clang only supports a limited number of ARM architectures. It does not yet fully support ARMv5, for example. +PowerPC +^^^^^^^ + +The support for PowerPC (especially PowerPC64) is considered stable +on Linux and FreeBSD: it has been tested to correctly compile many +large C and C++ codebases. PowerPC (32bit) is still missing certain +features (e.g. PIC code on ELF platforms). + Other platforms ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -clang currently contains some support for PPC and Sparc; however, -significant pieces of code generation are still missing, and they +clang currently contains some support for other architectures (e.g. Sparc); +however, significant pieces of code generation are still missing, and they haven't undergone significant testing. clang contains limited support for the MSP430 embedded processor, but