These are the last PowerPC cross targets that still use the IBM 128-bit long
double format. I'm not convinced anyone cares enough about them to justify
keeping them around, so this drops support. powerpc-linux-musleabi(hf), which
use the IEEE format, are still fully supported for people who want to use old
32-bit PowerPC hardware.
glibc has never officially supported ELFv2 on big-endian PowerPC, and we do not
(and likely never will) support linking ELFv1. So just drop this target instead
of pretending we actually have anything resembling usable support for it. This
is a dying target anyway; IBM have been pushing people to powerpc64le for years
now, and most distros have dropped big endian.
glibc headers and abilists are not updated as part of this; I'll just let that
happen automatically on the next glibc update. Size savings are expected to be
very minimal anyway since there's large overlap between powerpc64 and
powerpc64le.
This commit also fixes a couple of bad assumptions in std.Target:
* The dynamic linker path should be /lib64/ld64.so.1. We should get this right
even if the Zig compiler doesn't support the target.
* cCallingConvention() was picking powerpc64_elf_v2 only for musl targets. In
reality, for the targets we support in std.Target, it should pick v2 for all
except powerpc64-linux-gnu.
Finally, this switches LLVM codegen to use ELFv2 data layout for all targets
except ps3.
Apple's own headers and tbd files prefer to think of Mac Catalyst as a distinct
OS target. Earlier, when DriverKit support was added to LLVM, it was represented
a distinct OS. So why Apple decided to only represent Mac Catalyst as an ABI in
the target triple is beyond me. But this isn't the first time they've ignored
established target triple norms (see: armv7k and aarch64_32) and it probably
won't be the last.
While doing this, I also audited all Darwin OS prongs throughout the codebase
and made sure they cover all the tags.
There is approximately zero chance of the Zig team ever spending any effort on
supporting Cygwin; the MSVC and MinGW-w64 ABIs are superior in every way that
matters, and not least because they lead to binaries that just run natively on
Windows without needing a POSIX emulation environment installed.
As with Solaris (dba1bf9353), we have no way to
actually audit contributions for these OSs. IBM also makes it even harder than
Oracle to actually obtain these OSs.
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There is no straightforward way for the Zig team to access the Solaris system
headers; to do this, one has to create an Oracle account, accept their EULA to
download the installer ISO, and finally install it on a machine or VM. We do not
have to jump through hoops like this for any other OS that we support, and no
one on the team has expressed willingness to do it.
As a result, we cannot audit any Solaris contributions to std.c or other
similarly sensitive parts of the standard library. The best we would be able to
do is assume that Solaris and illumos are 100% compatible with no way to verify
that assumption. But at that point, the solaris and illumos OS tags would be
functionally identical anyway.
For Solaris especially, any contributions that involve APIs introduced after the
OS was made closed-source would also be inherently more risky than equivalent
contributions for other proprietary OSs due to the case of Google LLC v. Oracle
America, Inc., wherein Oracle clearly demonstrated its willingness to pursue
legal action against entities that merely copy API declarations.
Finally, Oracle laid off most of the Solaris team in 2017; the OS has been in
maintenance mode since, presumably to be retired completely sometime in the 2030s.
For these reasons, this commit removes all Oracle Solaris support.
Anyone who still wishes to use Zig on Solaris can try their luck by simply using
illumos instead of solaris in target triples - chances are it'll work. But there
will be no effort from the Zig team to support this use case; we recommend that
people move to illumos instead.
The big endian RISC-V effort is mostly driven by MIPS (the company) which is
pivoting to RISC-V, and presumably needs a big endian variant to fill the niche
that big endian MIPS (the ISA) did.
GCC already supports these targets, but LLVM support will only appear in 22;
this commit just adds the necessary target knowledge and checks on our end.
* mips64/mips64el on NetBSD are soft float; we have no support for this yet.
* powerpc64 does not appear to be a thing.
* riscv32/riscv64 have not seen official releases yet.
The last Intel Quark MCU was released in 2015. Quark was announced to be EOL in
2019, and stopped shipping entirely in 2022.
The OS tag was only meaningful for Intel's weird fork of Linux 3.8.7 with a
special ABI that differs from the regular i386 System V ABI; beyond that, the
CPU itself is just a plain old P54C (i586). We of course keep support for the
CPU itself, just not Intel's Linux fork.
It doesn't appear that targeting bridgeOS is meaningfully supported by Apple.
Even LLVM/Clang appear to have incomplete support for it, suggesting that Apple
never bothered to upstream that support. So there's really no sense in us
pretending to support this.
Without doing this, we don't actually test whether the data layout string we
generate matches LLVM's.
A number of targets had to be commented out due to this change:
* Some are using a non-working experimental LLVM backend (arc, csky, ...).
* Some don't have working LLD support (lanai, sparc, ...).
* Some don't have working self-hosted linker support (nvptx).
* Some are using ABIs that haven't been standardized (loongarch32).
Finally, all non-x86 uefi targets are hopelessly broken and can't really be
fixed until we change our emit logic to lower *-uefi-* verbatim rather than to
*-windows-*. See: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/21630
Once we upgrade to LLVM 20, these should be lowered verbatim rather than to
simply musl. Similarly, the special case in llvmMachineAbi() should go away.
Alex Rønne Petersen