Toolchains adventures - Q1 2024
Frederic Cambus March 31, 2024 [LLVM] [Compilers] [Toolchains]This is the ninth post in my toolchains adventures series. Please check the previous posts in the toolchains category for more context about this journey. There was no Q4 2023 report as there wasn't really anything worthwhile to write about.
I've been taking a break from Pkgsrc to only focus on OpenBSD at this point, for which I updated binutils to version 2.42 in the ports tree.
During this OpenBSD release cycle, the remaining parts required to get pinsyscalls(2) working have been committed, and I added support upstream for the PT_OPENBSD_SYSCALLS segment type to readelf in GNU Binutils, as well as in LLVM versions of objdump and readobj.
Lastly, I also wrote a blog post about Speedbuilding LLVM/Clang in 3 minutes on Power10.
As usual, I’ve also been busy reading different material, and adding new resources to toolchains.net.
binutils commits:
| 2024-02-12 | d86205c | Add support to readelf for the PT_OPENBSD_SYSCALLS segment type |
LLVM commits
| 2024-02-20 | a8d7511 | [llvm-readobj] Add support for the PT_OPENBSD_SYSCALLS segment type |
| 2024-02-20 | 1b89486 | [llvm-objdump] Add support for the PT_OPENBSD_SYSCALLS segment type |
| 2024-02-17 | 97eff26 | [Support/ELF] Add OpenBSD PT_OPENBSD_SYSCALLS constant |
| 2024-02-10 | d2e4a72 | [clang] Update Clang version from 18 to 19 in scan-build.1 |