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Re: [patch] ppc64 native target for gcc

From: Jack Howarth <howarth at bromo dot msbb dot uc dot edu>
To: Bradley Lucier <lucier at math dot purdue dot edu>
Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, Eric Christopher <echristo at apple dot com>
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 15:23:47 -0500
Subject: Re: [patch] ppc64 native target for gcc
References: <1BC200EE-1436-4E0A-A623-48FB659F7C4B@math.purdue.edu> <20061110194759.GA9849@bromo.msbb.uc.edu> <2FDAD398-1188-4D82-8093-D2C005089B6C@math.purdue.edu>

Brad,
    I could be wrong but I believe that a working libffi is
needed by java to function properly. Currently the libffi
in both gcc trunk and 4.2 branch has not been revised for
64-bit support on Darwin. This explains why so many libffi
and java testsuite failures occur at -m64 on a build with
the powerpc-*-darwin* target. The java build uses the gcj
and other java utilities to complete the libjava build.
Hence this is extremely unlikely to ever work until libffi
gets 64-bit support on Darwin.
              Jack

On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 03:11:45PM -0500, Bradley Lucier wrote:
> 
> What do you mean by "pointless"?  Will *no* java programs compile/run  
> on ppc64?
>

References:
- Re: [patch] ppc64 native target for gcc
  - From: Bradley Lucier
- Re: [patch] ppc64 native target for gcc
  - From: Jack Howarth
- Re: [patch] ppc64 native target for gcc
  - From: Bradley Lucier

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