Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 01:56:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, <alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: mozilla failure on 4.6.2 Message-ID: <20020907015556.L45915-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20020907000825.GA4091@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, David O'Brien wrote: > On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 04:03:02PM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 12:19:09PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > > > http://www.mozilla.org/unix/tru64.html > > > > > > > > It applies to Tru64, but it hints that Alpha Linux is the only platform > > > > capable of compiling Mozilla for Alpha using GCC. The Compaq C++ > > > > compiler is, unfortunately, not ported to FreeBSD. > > > > > > 2.There is xptcall code for g++ running under Linux/alpha. This code > > > would be a good place to start writing a Tru64 implementation. The > > > vtable format is different between g++ running under Linux and Tru64, > > > > > > This should not be the case for FreeBSD -- meaning we are using the same > > > vtable format as AlphaLinux now. > > > > You're probably still catching up.. but my tests using TestXPTCInvoke.cpp > > from /usr/ports/www/mozilla-devel/work/mozilla/xpcom/reflect/xptcall/tests > > indicates that the linux/alpha code does not work for us. > > > > This was tested on -stable, built as of last night. > > The vtable format in stable is not the same as AlphaLinux, it is the same > in -CURRENT. Do we know if the results you posted also happen on > -CURRENT? Apparently, -CURRENT has some other issues. Due to my lack of Alpha hardware, I have only done limited testing on 4.6.2-RELEASE. Joe > > PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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