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authorChris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org>2006-02-05 06:44:17 +0000
committerChris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org>2006-02-05 06:44:17 +0000
commit51473c337957bf592e973ec324726ed865878c07 (patch)
tree273b05c148d4ee9c799b83c7f73731de9178eea1 /llvm
parent368f20e53df6d703b2cd2d566fc80f9e38cd411b (diff)
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Encourage use of the V8 ABI over the V9 ABI.
llvm-svn: 25996
Diffstat (limited to 'llvm')
-rw-r--r--llvm/docs/CFEBuildInstrs.html8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/llvm/docs/CFEBuildInstrs.html b/llvm/docs/CFEBuildInstrs.html
index e10c70732b8..a7797c6b633 100644
--- a/llvm/docs/CFEBuildInstrs.html
+++ b/llvm/docs/CFEBuildInstrs.html
@@ -179,9 +179,9 @@ macros defined for conditional compilation.
</p>
<p>
-The SPARC V8 backend is still beta quality software. Unless you are working on
-the SPARC V8 backend, you should specify sparcv9 on the configure command line,
-as shown below. Also,
+The SPARC V8 ABI support is more robust than the V9 ABI support and can generate
+SPARC V9 code. It is highly recommended that you use the V8 ABI with LLVM, as
+shown below. Also,
note that Solaris has trouble with various wide (multibyte) character
functions from C as referenced from C++, so we typically configure with
--disable-c-mbchar (cf. <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR206">Bug 206</a>).
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ functions from C as referenced from C++, so we typically configure with
<pre>
% cd build
% ../src/configure --prefix=$CFEINSTALL --disable-threads --disable-nls \
- --disable-shared --enable-languages=c,c++ --host=sparcv9-sun-solaris2.8 \
+ --disable-shared --enable-languages=c,c++ --host=sparc-sun-solaris2.8 \
--disable-c-mbchar --program-prefix=llvm-
% gmake all; gmake install
</pre>
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