Re: [Sbcl-devel] MIPS checked in

[Ingvar <in...@ca...>]

> Hi,
> 
> As those of you who avidly follow the CVS commits list will know, I
> checked in the mips backend a week ago, and I made a minor fixup today.
> 
> With that fixup, building on my MIPS box from a
> previously-cross-compiled binary gets as far as second genesis before
> the Out of Memory killer terminates the process with extreme
> prejudice... so I'm moderately confident that it works, more or less,
> though it's at present untested on little endian MIPS variants.
> 
> This means that, as far as I'm concerned, porting of backends from CMUCL
> is complete.  There remain some Operating Systems that we could support
> but currently don't[1] (Irix, HPUX and of course MacOS X), but this is
> largely orthogonal to the code-generation aspect involved in the
> backends.

Amusingly enough, I am just in the process of rebuilding my computer room
so I (among other things) can get my HP workstation up and running. While
I cannot promise any rapid work (not ever having poked SBCL internals before),
I'd be willing to give it a stab, as long as there are people I can bug with 
questions. 

//Ingvar