and Settings" directory). We welcome patches to fix this issue.
</p>
<p>It has been found that the GCC 3.3.3 compiler provided with recent Cygwin
-versions is incapable of compiling the LLVM CFE correctly. If your Cygwin
+versions is incapable of compiling the LLVM GCC front-end correctly. If your
+Cygwin
installation includes GCC 3.3.3, we <i>strongly</i> recommend that you download
-GCC 3.4.3, build it separately, and use it for compiling LLVM CFE. This has been
+GCC 3.4.3, build it separately, and use it for compiling the LLVM GCC front-end. This has been
shown to work correctly.</p>
<p>Some versions of Cygwin utilize an experimental version of GNU binutils that
will cause the GNU <tt>ld</tt> linker to fail an assertion when linking
</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>).
+--disable-c-mbchar (cf. <a href="http://llvm.org/PR206">Bug 206</a>).
</p>
<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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- http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu
+ http://llvm.org
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