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FreeBSD provides more up to date compilers than
the one provided by the system.

PR-URL: #30325
Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <riclau@uk.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: Jiawen Geng <technicalcute@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Rod Vagg <rod@vagg.org>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
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devnexen authored and addaleax committed Nov 30, 2019
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| macOS | x64 | >= 10.11 | Tier 1 | |
| SmartOS | x64 | >= 18 | Tier 2 | |
| AIX | ppc64be >=power7 | >= 7.2 TL02 | Tier 2 | |
| FreeBSD | x64 | >= 11 | Experimental | Downgraded as of Node.js 12 |
| FreeBSD | x64 | >= 11 | Experimental | Downgraded as of Node.js 12 <sup>[7](#fn7)</sup> |

<em id="fn1">1</em>: GCC 6 is not provided on the base platform, users will
need the
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Furthermore, compiling on x86 Windows is currently considered Experimental and
may not be possible.

<em id="fn7">7</em>: The default FreeBSD 12.0 compiler is Clang 6.0.1, but
FreeBSD 12.1 upgrades to 8.0.1. Other Clang/LLVM versions are provided
via the system's package manager, including Clang 9.0.

### Supported toolchains

Depending on the host platform, the selection of toolchains may vary.
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