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Fix comma splices. Remove unnecessary words. Minor text improvements. PR-URL: #31070 Reviewed-By: Masashi Hirano <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Myles Borins <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Gireesh Punathil <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <[email protected]>
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Platforms may move between tiers between major release lines. The table below
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### Platform list
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| AIX | ppc64be >=power7 | >= 7.2 TL02 | Tier 2 | |
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| FreeBSD | x64 | >= 11 | Experimental | Downgraded as of Node.js 12 <sup>[7](#fn7)</sup> |
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<em id="fn1">1</em>: GCC 6 is not provided on the base platform, users will
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<em id="fn1">1</em>: GCC 6 is not provided on the base platform. Users will
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need the
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[Toolchain test builds PPA](https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-toolchain-r/+archive/ubuntu/test?field.series_filter=xenial)
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or similar to source a newer compiler.
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<em id="fn2">2</em>: GCC 6 is not provided on the base platform, users will
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<em id="fn2">2</em>: GCC 6 is not provided on the base platform. Users will
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need the
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[devtoolset-6](https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/devtoolset-6/)
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or later to source a newer compiler.
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<em id="fn3">3</em>: Older kernel versions may work for ARM64, however the
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<em id="fn3">3</em>: Older kernel versions may work for ARM64. However the
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Node.js test infrastructure only tests >= 4.5.
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<em id="fn4">4</em>: On Windows, running Node.js in Windows terminal emulators
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like `mintty` requires the usage of [winpty](https://github.com/rprichard/winpty)
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for the tty channels to work correctly (e.g. `winpty node.exe script.js`).
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for the tty channels to work (e.g. `winpty node.exe script.js`).
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In "Git bash" if you call the node shell alias (`node` without the `.exe`
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extension), `winpty` is used automatically.
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<em id="fn5">5</em>: The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is not directly
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<em id="fn5">5</em>: The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is not
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supported, but the GNU/Linux build process and binaries should work. The
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community will only address issues that reproduce on native GNU/Linux
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systems. Issues that only reproduce on WSL should be reported in the
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<em id="fn6">6</em>: Running Node.js on x86 Windows should work and binaries
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are provided. However, tests in our infrastructure only run on WoW64.
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Furthermore, compiling on x86 Windows is currently considered Experimental and
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Furthermore, compiling on x86 Windows is Experimental and
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may not be possible.
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<em id="fn7">7</em>: The default FreeBSD 12.0 compiler is Clang 6.0.1, but
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FreeBSD 12.1 upgrades to 8.0.1. Other Clang/LLVM versions are provided
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FreeBSD 12.1 upgrades to 8.0.1. Other Clang/LLVM versions are available
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via the system's package manager, including Clang 9.0.
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### Supported toolchains

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