Re: [Sablevm-developer] Re: Compile issue

[Etienne M. G. <eg...@j-...>]

"Etienne M. Gagnon" wrote:
> SableVM has the following "hard" dependencies:
> 1- ANSI C compiler & library
> 2- POSIX library

In fact, there are some pretty fancy (and I would say: ugly) other small
system specific dependencies, like memory consistency models (i.e. how
the caches behave on multi-processor systems), alignment rules (some
systems require special allignment for long/doubles, I have learned
lately on the SableVM user mailing list), and atomic compare-and-swap
operation (which must be written as inlined assembly).

I hate having to deal with some of these issues, but they are essential
for a conforming vm. (#!@(*&%^@!#$*@#%!!!)
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Etienne M. Gagnon, M.Sc.                     e-mail: eg...@j-...
Author of SableCC:                 http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/sablecc/
and SableVM:                                   http://www.sablevm.org/
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