Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 12:58:50 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: crt0.o (was) Re: Huzzah! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811291251250.1605-100000@bright.fx.genx.net> In-Reply-To: <3660D21F.34DC3F73@softweyr.com>
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On Sat, 28 Nov 1998, Wes Peters wrote: > > I'm also going to keep a log of that flags/things have to be passed to > > what, to actually bootstrap the sparc devel on i386. > > > > Do you have any other guidelines that i might follow to make a better port > > and avoid pitfalls? (ie. keeping logs and diffs) > > I've been attempting to build a cross-development tree with binutils > 2.9.1 and egcs-1.1b, Greg Lehey gave me a poke about this. I didn't > realize the sparc64 code was in such bad shape. Ugh, what a mess! > > I think I've got it building now; I'll keep track of what I had to > symlink, copy, and change if it actually works. ugh, my problem with using a newer compiler is that the two or three times i've brought up using a newer compiler on the lists i've been totally shot down. I want the work done to be accepted, not rejected because it uses a compiler that core can't accept. > > I kinda think setting up a single user cvs tree is overkill at the moment > > :) any suggestions? > > Do it anyhow. It only takes a few minutes, and you can then share > what you have with everyone else through pserver. Problem is that i'm working at home (dialup) but i may be able to get a cvs server up at work :) > > I need to find some docs or trace through some code to understand the ABI > > of sparc-elf (ie. which registers are temporary, arguments, globals, > > reserved) Working on it... > > Looking at the NetBSD code would be helpful on this. There is no good > reason to differ from them; this will help our future NetBSD/OpenBSD > portability. > > SPARC registers are really different from the Intel world. ;^) The asm code is neat-o, I really like RISC asm, it's very elegant. -Alfred > -- > "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" > > Wes Peters Softweyr LLC > http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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