# std.Target: Use v9 as the baseline CPU for sparc32\. · gitcafe/zig

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Author: Alex Rønne Petersen

Committer: Alex Rønne Petersen

## Message

```
std.Target: Use v9 as the baseline CPU for sparc32.

It is impossible to even build projects like glibc when targeting a generic
SPARC v8 CPU; LEON3 is effectively considered the baseline for `sparc-linux-gnu`
now, particularly due to it supporting a CASA instruction similar to the one in
SPARC v9. However, it's slightly incompatible with SPARC v9 due to having a
different ASI tag, so resulting binaries would not be portable to regular SPARC
CPUs. So, as the least bad option, make v9 the baseline for sparc32.

```

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