GNU Compiler Collection adds support for China's LoongArch CPU family

Version 12.1 of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) was released this month, and among its many changes is support for China's LoongArch processor architecture. The announcement of the release is here; the LoongArch port was accepted as recently as March. China's Academy of Sciences developed a family of MIPS-compatible …

[martinusher]

Change doesn't happen overnight

These processors might be effectively obsolete because of RISC-V but there's still a lot of them out there and there will be plenty in the production pipeline. Its the same with actual MIPS processors -- the switch will occur over a period of years because of product life cycles.

Integrating this architecture with the GUN toolchain would be a first step to phasing it out since it would free a lot of developers who would have been otherwise engaged in developing and maintain a proprietary toolchain to move to new work. (...and given the depth and sophistication of the GNU toolchain it doesn't make sense to go it alone anyway, you're far better off contributing work to the open source project)

[herman]

Deja RISC

MIPS and RISCV are reincarnations of an old favourite of mine. It is nice to play with these things in a FPGA and instead of simply using a RPi, or a PIC, make your own processor.

[YARR]

Those Chinese commies are having their LoongMarch through the Linux institutions.