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Well, to be fair! the page does say this immediately above the matrix - "The following toolchains and processors are supported out-of-the-box"

However, this is certainly not fully explanitative, and of course is just one line immediately above a large and eye-catching matrix.

I will change it, to make it more clear, and more eye-catching.

Regarding ARM64, it's something I want very much. I will finally have time for it now 7.1.0 is out. I Googled a bit just the other day and there are Pi-like ARM64 dev boards out there now, so I'm going to get one.

Which leaves me needing a SPARC dev board, and a POWERPC dev board, and an x86 dev board, and a MIPS64 dev board, and a... :-)

Wonder if you can use something like this:

http://elinux.org/Test_Lab_Architecture

to test on someone else's hardware?

I hope so.

I applied to the GCC compiler farm late last year, but received a reply only after so long a time that I'd deleted the key pair I'd submitted because I thought nothing was going to happen - and my efforts to get back in have yet been unanswered.

The GCC compile farm isn't for intensive testing or benchmarking, though (which is what you need for lock-free, to try to catch race conditions) - that test lab sounds more interesting.

I have to say though having your own dev boards which are yours and only yours and which you can hammer endlessly is very convenient. It's actually just occurred to me I can leave all the devs boards permanently running the test suite...

OTOH, I don't think I can get small, portable dev boards for all the platforms I care about, so at least for some architectures, a third-party farm is probably the only way.

Probably the most pressing requirement though is access to a Mac. Right now there are no build files for that platform.

By the way, the Pi3 had ARM64 cores.

I didn't know! thanks! I have a Pi 2 right now for ARM32, I'm completely happy with it.

There is no supported 64 bit kernel yet, though.

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