From owner-freebsd-sparc Thu Mar 28 17:55:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (wall-gw.polstra.com [206.213.73.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AF9137B41D for ; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 17:55:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g2T1tgo75438; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 17:55:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@wall.polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.11.6/8.11.0) id g2T1tgh12285; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 17:55:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp) Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 17:55:42 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200203290155.g2T1tgh12285@vashon.polstra.com> To: sparc@freebsd.org From: John Polstra Cc: peter@wemm.org Subject: Re: Questions regarding CVSup port to FreeBSD/sparc64 In-Reply-To: <20020329014537.CE492390B@overcee.wemm.org> References: <20020329014537.CE492390B@overcee.wemm.org> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA 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 In article <20020329014537.CE492390B@overcee.wemm.org>, Peter Wemm wrote: > John Polstra wrote: > > Note also that this is gcc 2.7.2.something -- pretty old. I don't > > know what kind of shape the sparc64 support was in at that time. > > Heh, I guess that means an ia64 client is right out of the question without > a C++ rewrite then.. :-] Not really. There is a newer version of Modula-3 called CM3, and I'm planning to transition over to it as the code base for ezm3. Its compiler back end is currently gcc-2.95.2, which wouldn't be so hard to update further if necessary. John -- John Polstra John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message