From owner-freebsd-sparc Tue Sep 24 10:13:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72BBE37B401 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 10:13:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wall.polstra.com (wall-gw.polstra.com [206.213.73.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4A0F43E6A for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 10:13:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from strings.polstra.com (strings.polstra.com [206.213.73.20]) by wall.polstra.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g8OHDMx58434 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 10:13:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.1 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 10:13:22 -0700 (PDT) Organization: Polstra & Co., Inc. From: John Polstra To: sparc@freebsd.org Subject: Sparc64 CVSup port status Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I spent quite a bit of time last week trying to port CVSup (and ezm3) to FreeBSD/sparc64. I updated the ezm3 code generator to gcc-2.95.4, but I'm still running into what appear to be code generation bugs. The code isn't completely broken -- e.g., when it's about to die, it manages to print a message saying so. I don't know whether the problem is due to sparc bugs in gcc-2.95.4 or due to a porting bug on my part. I would try gcc-3.2, but that port looks like it would be a substantially larger effort. I don't think I can make any further progress on this until gdb works. And fixing gdb is not something I want to add to my personal task list. If someone else can get gdb working to the point where I can set breakpoints, step through code, examine variables, etc., then there's a reasonable chance I can get CVSup working on this platform. Until then, I'm afraid the effort is stalled. John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message