Re: [Gcc4cli-devel] Running CLI code on Linux/SPARC64

[Gabriele S. <gab...@gm...>]

 Hi Thierry,

2010/3/3 Thierry Lafage <thi...@in...>:
> Hi all,
>
> [snip]
>
> So I have 2 questions:
>
> Is it normal that gcc4li DLLs are not portable since they are .NET
> assemblies?

Yes, it is normal because the structures layout is tied to 32-bit
little-endian architectures (i.e. pointer are 32-bit large, bit-fields
are arranged in little-endian fashion, etc...). On top of that SPARC64
requires 64-bit alignment for all 64-bit operands (including long
integers, and floating-point doubles, not only pointers) something
that the CLI-BE layout engine doesn't enforce.

> Are there special configuration options to compile gcc4cli on SPARC64?

If I remember correctly we should have a big-endian switch somewhere
which might help but it won't fix the alignment/layout problems, aside
from that you must make sure that on the SPARC64 you are using the
32-bit version of Mono and its libraries as we have no support for
64-bit architectures.

 Gabriele Svelto