Re: Great(?) idea [was: Re: [Sablevm-developer] Porting SableVM to ia64 done in 3 (lazy) hours]

[Etienne M. G. <eti...@uq...>]

On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 02:31:43PM +0200, Grzegorz Prokopski wrote:
> Would you apply a patch that makes all of the above automagic?
> I mean:
> - I can autodetect if this cmpxchg in asm/system.h is available
> (I already have the patch using autotools)
> - I can autodetect which types use for which needed sizes
> (I already have the patch using autotools)
> - I can autodetect page size (getpagesize), siezeof(void*)
> and the helper values (see that small testing app I sent yesterday)
> [I need to assume sth. about alignment unfortunatelly, like that
> it's equal to machine word size]
> 
> If we had this, we could have all Linux arches "just" working.
> If there will be other arches, maybe non-linux that we want to
> support - we can always have #else - don't we?

There seems to be a BSD version of SableVM floating around; so we
definitely need to provide an "#else" hook for these.

> The same stands for some better support for certain architectures.
> 
> But the aim is
> "This program can be compiled on any Linux machine if it's dependencies
> can be fulfilled"
> 
> Do you think you would apply such patch if I prepared complete solution?

I think so.


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