Changes between Version 43 and Version 44 of LibcxxOnOlderSystems

Timestamp:

Oct 31, 2016, 8:58:24 PM (7 years ago)

Author:

jeremyhu (Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia)

Comment:

Exceptions now work on Leopard

LibcxxOnOlderSystems

@@ -107 +107 @@
 == Leopard (ppc) ==
 
-Darwin/PowerPC support is still quite experimental in llvm, so expect things to not be as stable as more established toolchains.  Additionally, it is non-trivial to bootstrap libc++ on Leopard because the libcxx port does not build for ppc with versions older than clang-3.6, and clang-3.5 and newer require libc++.  After setting up my Leopard/Intel Mac as described above (fully upgraded through r131812), I've been able to build a universal libc++ runtime for ppc:
+Darwin/PowerPC support is still quite experimental in llvm, so expect things to not be as stable as more established toolchains.  Additionally, it is non-trivial to bootstrap libc++ on Leopard because the libcxx port does not build for ppc with versions older than clang-3.6, and clang-3.5 and newer require libc++.  After setting up my Leopard/Intel Mac as described above (fully upgraded through 1ad7738a54d1bb11c98455154e6d625680f49b2d), I've been able to build a universal libc++ runtime for ppc:
 {{{
 # clang-3.6 or newer is required for compiling ppc code with clang
@@ -119 +119 @@
 }}}
 
-With this, a simple PPC C++ "Hello World" app was able to run successfully on an Intel Mac, and also note that [http://www.llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=22270 exceptions don't work due to a bug in libunwind]).  Not much more testing has been done than that.
+With this, a simple PPC C++ "Hello World" app was able to run successfully on an Intel Mac.  Not much more testing has been done than that.
 
 == Tiger ==