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From:
"Brandon Mercer" <bmercer@eutonian.com>
Subject:
Re: UPDATE: Zig 0.17.0
To:
"Brad Smith" <brad@comstyle.com>, ports@openbsd.org
Cc:
"Brandon Mercer" <bmercer@openbsd.org>
Date:
Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:08:50 +0000

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On Mon, Oct 12, 2026, at 12:26 AM, Brad Smith wrote:
> On 2026-10-10 12:17 p.m., Brandon Mercer wrote:
>> Thanks, Brad. You got to this more quickly than I did. I see you added the archs that have received attention from zig with this release. I do not have hardware to test, but if someone does that could report back I would appreciate it. The short list is mips64, powerpc64 and risk64. We currently mark powerpc64 as broken and if that can change it would be good to know.
>>
>> Do you plan on upstreaming the lld changes that we are patching? If not I can submit a patch sometime soon.
>
> The second hunk regarding the PIE handling has already been pushed 
> upstream and has been committed.
> The first hunk IMO is a local patch I'll leave it there.
>
> I sent an updated diff as it looks like the issue with PowerPC64 should 
> have been fixed quite a few years ago.
>
> I also tried out sparc64, it's broken. I filed a bug report. There is a 
> pending patch set but I'll test that after this goes in.
>
> mips64 and riscv64 both have some level of support upstream, and I’d 
> like to see where things stand as-is.

Fine business! I had someone reach out off list to do some testing on mips64 so maybe we should wait a bit to hear back. The diff is still OK with me. Thanks again.