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authorRoman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org>2013-09-11 17:12:49 +0000
committerRoman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org>2013-09-11 17:12:49 +0000
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Clarify the status of PowerPC support.
llvm-svn: 190533
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@@ -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