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[DEV] Proposal to drop PPC64 BE support in the next version of Golang
« on: January 19, 2026, 07:03:14 am »
See https://github.com/golang/go/issues/76244

It's unfortunate that Go might drop support for PPC64BE for real. That means many Golang-based softwares will cease running on POWER8 or even POWER5 G5 PowerMac.
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Re: [DEV] Proposal to drop PPC64 BE support in the next version of Golang
« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2026, 07:14:02 am »
AFAIK Go already requires at least POWER8 even on big-endian. So even in the current state the binaries won't run on G5.
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Re: [DEV] Proposal to drop PPC64 BE support in the next version of Golang
« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2026, 10:03:47 am »
gccgo should still work.
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