[Sablevm-developer] Re: SableVM/Solaris status report request

[David <db...@cs...>]

On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 11:35:23AM -0500, David B=E9langer wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 02:48:46AM -0500, Grzegorz B. Prokopski wrote:
> > Hi guys!
> >=20
>=20
> Hi Greg,
>=20
> > AFAIK there were some problems w/ Solaris port of SableVM, like:
> > - you had to fix libffi,
>=20
> yes.

Hi,

Small update for Solaris/sparc.

libffi - Tried again with snapshot extracted from pyobjc project.
         Not working, looks syntax errors in assembly file.
Will study/fix that later.

> > - in classpath you changed file longint to standard int (which
> > would suggest that 64-bit value handling was broken?)
>=20
> I remember at the beginning we had to change a few 64-bit int
> to 32-bit int.  But these should be no longer necessary.
>=20

Classpath/staging almost works for Solaris/sparc.
2 issues:
- need extra include for a #define constants.
- does not compile doc
See patch attached.

> > Have the libffi fixes for Solaris been pushed upstream?
> > Where's the diff of them?
> >=20
>=20
> If I remember well for libffi, we took and maybe modified part of the
> newer version into an older version.  We will need to have a look again
> at that with a recent libffi and send the diff upstream.
>=20

Will look into that later.

>=20
> > Have the problem w/ 64-bit values been fixed?
> >=20
>=20
> Yes.
>=20

SableVM bootstraps and runs HelloWorld kind of programs.  Did not
heavily test.  64-bit problem seems ok with old modified libffi.

No changes are required in SableVM.

Did not run the BTS yet.

Help for SableVM/Solaris welcome.


David

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