Re: GNUstep on OpenBSD alpha

[David Chisnall]

On 17 Jul 2014, at 18:49, Sebastian Reitenbach <address@hidden> 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).

David

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