From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Feb 5 10:13:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from malkavian.org (malkavian.org [206.136.132.23]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B9D845E6 for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2000 10:13:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (rbw@localhost) by malkavian.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA17018; Sat, 5 Feb 2000 11:13:41 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from rbw@myplace.org) Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2000 11:13:40 -0700 (MST) From: "brian j. peterson" To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a little help with Compaq Fortran In-Reply-To: <14492.25450.986008.933941@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Message-ID: X-Prime: (2 ^ 6972593) - 1 X-URL: http://rbw.myplace.org/ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Andrew Gallatin wrote: <<>> # 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