Rust now available on 14 Debian architectures
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Hi!
This week we managed to bootstrap the Rust compiler for four more Debian
architectures [1]. This means, that the Rust compiler is now available
on a total of 14 Debian architectures with all of the release architectures
covered.
The newly added architectures are:
- mips
- mips64el
- mipsel
- powerpcspe
This is the result by the combined effort of a lot of talented people, in
particular working on LLVM upstream which fixed many many bugs in the MIPS
and PowerPC backends as well as adding support for the PowerPCSPE sub-target.
To all of these people: Thank you!
The potential next bootstrap candidates are riscv64 and x32. I don't know about
the exact status of the riscv64 port but x32 had a crashing Rust compiler last time
I tested it which could also just be a result of LLVM bugs. I haven't tested with
the latest LLVM version yet, which is what I will do next.
The other potential candidate for Rust support is m68k. There are ongoing
efforts to add m68k to both LLVM [2] and Rust [3] and while many people think
that supporting modern Linux software on 30 year-old hardware is insane, I think
it's actually fun :-).
We might also be able to re-add the Alpha [4] and Itanium [5] backends and
consequently add support for these architectures to the Rust compiler as the
latter is the smaller of the two efforts, but I guess the LLVM people will
chase us to Mars for trying to do that :-).
Anyway, enjoy having Rust available on even more architectures and have fun!
Thanks,
Adrian
> [1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=rustc&suite=unstable
> [2] https://reviews.llvm.org/D50314
> [3] https://github.com/glaubitz/rust/tree/m68k-linux
> [4] https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm/commit/33ba8b0e96acde0d8ab1ffc565a5ef4c8b6b6ac2
> [5] https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm/commit/d2cb3d2c32b8f53bf94d56fbdd48503ace28df4b
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.''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
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