Re: [Sbcl-devel] Thanks very much for all the PPC patches, plus OpenBSD

[Alastair B. <ala...@gm...>]

Hello,

On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 7:24 AM, Bruce O'Neel <ec...@pc...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks very much for all of the PPC patches!  That's very nice
> and now nicely explains why I was having so many problems with my
> programs that used big hash tables.  Excellent!

Not a problem. I just got a G5 about a fortnight ago, and have been
trying to clear up the "obvious" problems that I've run into. Mostly
failures in the test-suite, although the GC was fairly obvious as
well.

Do you have a list of PPC-related problems that could do with looking at?

> I also have OpenBSD/PPC working, the patches to 1.0.38.5 are at:
>
> http://www.pckswarms.ch/sbcl/ppc-openbsd-4.6-patch-20100430.tar.gz

I'm afraid that these have two obvious problems:

  1. The accepted patch format is a "unified context diff", not
replacement files.

  2. These changes very obviously break a number of other platforms,
such as every non-openbsd gencgc ppc target.  And that's just from
src/compiler/ppc/parms.lisp. The other changed source files have
similar breakages.

An additional problem is that I cannot run OpenBSD on my system (it
supports neither my hard drive controller nor my network adaptor), so
I can't really clean these up myself.

> cheers
>
> bruce

-- Alastair Bridgewater