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diff --git a/docs/CFEBuildInstrs.html b/docs/CFEBuildInstrs.html index 0622824..ffec810 100644 --- a/docs/CFEBuildInstrs.html +++ b/docs/CFEBuildInstrs.html @@ -170,8 +170,15 @@ of permissions. Specify a path into which LLVM can be installed (e.g. <p><b>Solaris/SPARC:</b></p> <p> -For Solaris/SPARC, LLVM only supports the SPARC V9 architecture. Therefore, -the configure command line should specify sparcv9, as shown below. Also, +The GCC front-end can be configured for either SPARC V8 (32 bit) or SPARC V9 (64 +bit). This changes, among other things, the sizes of integer types and the +macros defined for conditional compilation. +</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, 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>). |