Re: FFI on mipsel

[Will N. <wi...@mi...>]

On Friday 03 June 2005 21:49, Bruno Haible wrote:

> 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.

Debian builds Linux mips(eb) and mipsel, so the test suite runs OK on both of 
those architectures. I don't have access to any IRIX machine to test these 
changes however. Are there any IRIX users on this list? I will ask on 
clisp-list too, although the archives don't turn up any IRIX questions.

Hmm, it seems SGI may provide access to a development system. I will look into 
that if there are no volunteers.

> > 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.

That proposal seems to have run into a lot of opposition from developers, mips 
should be around in Debian for the next few years at least.