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

[Thierry L. <thi...@in...>]

Hi Gabriele,

Thanks for your answer.
For gcc4cli compilation, I've just realised that the build did not use 
the version of mono I wanted. It used an old 1.9.1 instead of the 
2.6.1... Rebuild is on the way now...

Thierry Lafage.



Gabriele Svelto a écrit :
>  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
>