From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat May 13 2:36:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-30.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-30.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26FE137B5CD for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 02:36:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from nlsys.demon.co.uk ([158.152.125.33] helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by anchor-post-30.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 12qYLb-0008Vr-0U; Sat, 13 May 2000 10:36:35 +0100 Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA42797; Sat, 13 May 2000 10:40:29 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 10:41:01 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: Peter Wemm , Boris Popov , freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Loader fixed In-Reply-To: <391CDA9F.FE9D5746@newsguy.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 13 May 2000, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > 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. The compile tends to use FP registers as scratch storage for e.g. memory-memory moves. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 20 8442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message