Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 19:48:09 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Far enough along for a CVSup port? Message-ID: <20030130034809.GB1263@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20030129174142.jdp@polstra.com> References: <XFMail.20030129174142.jdp@polstra.com>
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On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 05:41:42PM -0800, John Polstra wrote: > Is FreeBSD/ia64 far enough along that it would be worthwhile for me > to try to port CVSup to it? I think so. > Specific questions: > > - Does gcc-3.2.1 seem to work reliably for this architecture? Yes. > - So _setjmp and _longjmp work? Yes. > - Can I reasonably hope that _setjmp and _longjmp will work for > userland thread switching? Euh, yes. -lc_r seems to have some problems for non-trivial cases, but I don't think it's setjmp/longjmp. I can help out if you think somethings fishy. > Also, could somebody give me links to an instruction set reference > and an ABI spec? I don't know anything about this architecture > (yet). See: http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ia64/refs.html It doesn't have the runtime stuff, but I'll add it this evening. Otherwise, see: http://developer.intel.com/design/itanium/downloads/245358.htm FYI, -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ia64" in the body of the message
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