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

[Archie C. <ar...@de...>]

Etienne M. Gagnon writes:
> > 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.

FYI,

The patches that are currently required to get SableVM to compile
on FreeBSD are visible here:

  http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/java/sablevm/files/

The files are named 'patch-*' (ignore the 'extra-patch-*' files).

It would be nice if SableVM could be generalized enough that these
patches wouldn't be necessary. I'm sure NetBSD and OpenBSD require
similar fixes, so not just FreeBSD would benefit.

I'd be happy to help test on FreeBSD if needed.

Cheers,
-Archie

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