Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 02:08:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Loader fixed Message-ID: <14620.61617.657781.403879@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <391CDA9F.FE9D5746@newsguy.com> References: <20000512230125.BB80E1CE1@overcee.netplex.com.au> <391CDA9F.FE9D5746@newsguy.com>
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Daniel C. Sobral writes: > Peter Wemm wrote: > > > > I've reactivated it and added the initialize call - the problem that broke > > libficl in the first place was that it was using fp regs in the generated > > code. I had to add -mno-fp-regs to the libficl build for the Alpha and now > > it works. > > Was it??? I wonder why... we had to remove any fp feature from loader so > it would work on i386. Gcc tends to use the alpha floating point registers like any other general purpose register unless you add -mno-fp-regs to the arg list. That's why -mno-fp-regs is in the kernel compile. Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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