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I wonder if LLVM is more open for keeping support for ancient systems like this in-tree than gcc. I know a few people working on an LLVM backend for SGI MIPS C

I wonder if LLVM is more open for keeping support for ancient systems like this in-tree than gcc. I know a few people working on an LLVM backend for SGI MIPS CPUs, for example. As I understand it, keeping an LLVM backend updated with the main compiler is far less work than keeping a GCC backend up-to-date, so the burden for supporting exotic/ancient systems is much lower

orra 4y ago
> I wonder if LLVM is more open for keeping support for ancient systems like this in-tree than gcc. Maybe things have changed, but I got the opposite impression from previous discussions, around Rust portability.