Please join the Discord. I’m interested in your experience with ppc and ppc64. One day I’ll need some help in installing GS in ppc64be (and el) Debian.
Cheers,
Umberto
> Il giorno 24 nov 2019, alle ore 19:50, Bertrand Dekoninck <bertrand.dekoninck@gmail.com> ha scritto:
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>> Le 23 nov. 2019 à 15:48, Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola@libero.it> a écrit :
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>> Hi,
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>>> On 11/20/19 12:28 PM, David Chisnall wrote:
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>>> I'm happy to take contributions for the assembly paths for other architectures. We currently have:
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>>> - x86-32
>>> - x86-64
>>> - AArch32
>>> - AArch64
>>> - MIPS (at least n64 works, I think o32 and n32 are there but untested).
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>>> I passionately hate PowerPC assembly, so will definitely not write that myself, but anyone who wants to add it is very welcome to do so. I will probably get around to adding RISC-V support at some point.
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>> this list only lacks in my interest:
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>> - MIPS LittleEndian (as soon as I get the small project with Nikolaus actually do something useful) or is your implementation already endian-independent?
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>> - PPC32 (the only thing I have access to) and PPC64 to be accepted by the mainstream users today
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>> - SPARC32 and SPARC64
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>> sadly, it has been ages I touched PPC (which as much as I love CPU concept, always hated when working in assembly) and SPARC code, but it would be a nice addition.
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>> On both PPC and SPARC I only use GCC, but... if that works, I'd be tickled to work lower level again.
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>> Riccardo
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> I’m happy to see how such a sensitive topic (compilers…) does progress these days. And I’d really be very happy if the gnustep runtime could run on ppc (both 32 and 64).
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> Last time I tried (on debian 8 ppc32, 1 year ago or even more ?) it failed, and I was alone with my questions. The problem was not only the assembly bits (as David said, there is a slower alternative) but some problem with clang (I don’t remember…). I’d be happy to help here and test again. I can’t code any assembly, but I can test on PPC32 and PPC64. I fear I need to install debian sid on my machines, which is a pain for now. I know you (Ricardo) did install it on a powerbook. Can we have a decent X11 session there, and a decent compiler ? If we can build libobjc on this system, then it’ll be assembly coding time.
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> Which is the oldest version of Clang mandatory to build the gnustep runtime (1.9 and 2.0) ? Do we need a specific linker ? I would like to avoid clang’s build and use the distro’s one.
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