From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Sep 6 22:56:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B2FA37B400; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 22:56:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shumai.marcuscom.com (rdu57-17-158.nc.rr.com [66.57.17.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC94B43E65; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 22:56:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from shumai.marcuscom.com (localhost.marcuscom.com [127.0.0.1]) by shumai.marcuscom.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g875uRVD045981; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 01:56:27 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from localhost (marcus@localhost) by shumai.marcuscom.com (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) with ESMTP id g875uRgj045978; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 01:56:27 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: shumai.marcuscom.com: marcus owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 01:56:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: "David O'Brien" Cc: Andrew Gallatin , Subject: Re: mozilla failure on 4.6.2 In-Reply-To: <20020907000825.GA4091@dragon.nuxi.com> Message-ID: <20020907015556.L45915-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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