Re: FFI on mipsel

[Bruno H. <br...@cl...>]

Will Newton wrote:
> I have some fixes for the FFI on mips that I posted a while ago. Would
> these be a possible candidate for the next release?

Thanks for the fixes. But more work needs to be done on them to ensure that
they will not kill the support of big-endian IRIX/mips systems. I won't
apply them as-is, the risk of breaking IRIX support (or MIPSEB in general)
is just too high. The right/safe way to do this is
  1. #ifdefize between MIPSEB and MIPSEL in avcall.h.in,
  2. #ifdefize between MIPSEB and MIPSEL in avcall-mips.c,
  3. create different avcall-mips-eb.s and avcall-mips-el.s which two
     appropriately built gcc compilers.

> I need to get them synced with the current CVS, but I suspect that Debian
> is the only person building on mips at the moment.

And even in Debian, I think, ports like mips have been downgraded to
"second class citizens" a few weeks ago.

Bruno