Hello, On 14/02/2018 13:11, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Source: llvm-toolchain-4.0 > Version: 1:4.0.1-10 > Severity: normal > Tags: patch > User: debian-sp...@lists.debian.org > Usertags: sparc64 > > Hello! > > In order to get the Rust compiler work on sparc64, we need another > LLVM patch which is currently being upstreamed [1] which fixes the > code generation on sparc64. > > Without the patch, LLVM generates invalid code that binutils stumbles > over and crashes with an internal error [2]. With the patch merged, > LLVM is working properly and allows a full native build of the Rust > compiler on sparc64 :). > > Since Rust upstream is currently still on LLVM 4.0, even for Rust > 1.24, it would be nice to have the patch merged for the 4.0 version > as well as the 6.0 version of the llvm-toolchain package. Although > we are going to convince upstream to backport the patch for 6.0. > Could you please commit directly this change in the repo?
Thanks, Sylvestre
