Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2000 11:13:40 -0700 (MST) From: "brian j. peterson" <rbw@myplace.org> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a little help with Compaq Fortran Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002051108330.43876-100000@malkavian.org> In-Reply-To: <14492.25450.986008.933941@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Andrew Gallatin wrote: <<<snip>>> # As an aside, linux/alpha emulation is more challenging than you might # think. This has more to do with the disgusting, hackish nature of # linux than any fault (eg 32-bit-ism) of our linux-emu. Linux uses # different syscall numbers & different flags for syscall args on # different ports. Many system calls even behave differently. Little # things like pipe are totally different between the x86 & the alpha. I # realize they did this when they bootstrapped of of osf/1, but they # really should have reverted to their native numbers/flags. Its really # quite a mess.. precisely why i am sticking with FreeBSD. =) anyway, do you think it would be easier to get Compaq to port their Fortran compiler to FreeBSD/alpha instead? they have those alphas running FreeBSD in their testdrive program, so it would seem to me that they already have (token?) support for FreeBSD/alpha. why not nudge them to support it more? -brian -- --===-----=======-----------=============-----------------=================== | rbw aka bjp | god's final message to his creation: | | rbw@myplace.org | we apologize for the inconvenience. | ===================-----------------=============-----------=======-----===-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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