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Software => Applications and Porting => Topic started by: tle on January 19, 2026, 07:03:14 am

Title: [DEV] Proposal to drop PPC64 BE support in the next version of Golang
Post by: tle 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.

Title: Re: [DEV] Proposal to drop PPC64 BE support in the next version of Golang
Post by: pkubaj 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.

Title: Re: [DEV] Proposal to drop PPC64 BE support in the next version of Golang
Post by: ClassicHasClass on January 20, 2026, 10:03:47 am

gccgo should still work.