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Want to test Racket/Chez on powerpc64le?
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Philip McGrath |
Subject: |
Want to test Racket/Chez on powerpc64le? |
Date: |
Mon, 01 Aug 2022 15:46:21 -0400 |
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Hi folks,
I have a patch series at https://gitlab.com/philip1/guix-patches/-/tree/zuo for
the Racket 8.5.900 release candidate for the imminent Racket 8.6 release.[1]
The patch series also enables Racket CS and the 'chez-scheme-for-racket'
package on systems they haven't supported until now, such as
powerpc64le-linux—at least, I think it does: I'm hoping some of you can test
it. The riscv64-linux, mips64el-linux, and i586-gnu are similarly situated: I
ask particularly about powerpc64le-linux because Matthew Flatt has tested it
upstream (thanks to the GCC Compile Farm).
If you just want to help quickly, try this:
guix time-machine --url=https://gitlab.com/philip1/guix-patches --branch=zuo
--disable-authentication -- build chez-scheme-for-racket racket
and let me know how it goes, either here or at [2]. Allow about an hour for the
build. (So, not *that* quickly …)
Some more background about what's new:
The systems I listed above are ones for which Racket's variant of Chez Scheme
doesn't (yet!) have backends to generate machine code. With these changes, they
instead can now use "pbarch" backends added to Racket's variant of Chez Scheme:
a "portable bytecode" mode specialized to word size and endianness, with core
bytecode additionally compiled to C.
I've cross-compiled 'chez-scheme-for-racket' and 'racket-vm-cs' successfully
for the Linux-based systems. (There's still a problem with i586-pc-gnu,
probably some missing/different C flag.) Unfortunately, I ran into a QEMU error
[3] when I tried an emulated build, possibly related to Racket BC's use of
SIGSEGV to implement the GC write barrier, and I don't have access to any of
the relevant hardware myself. So, I'm hoping people who do might be able to
give it a try!
Thanks,
Philip
[1]: https://racket.discourse.group/t/racket-v8-6-release-thread/1091
[2]:
https://racket.discourse.group/t/chez-for-architectures-without-native-backends/950
[3]:
https://racket.discourse.group/t/chez-for-architectures-without-native-backends/950/13
- Want to test Racket/Chez on powerpc64le?,
Philip McGrath <=