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Re: [Boehm-GC] Limit +ESdbgasm to HPUX cc on PA
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: "John David Anglin" <dave at hiauly1 dot hia dot nrc dot ca>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, roger at eyesopen dot com, hans_boehm at hp dot com
- Date: 04 Jul 2003 12:02:55 -0600
- Subject: Re: [Boehm-GC] Limit +ESdbgasm to HPUX cc on PA
- References: <200307041754.h64HsNYv019575@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>
- Reply-to: tromey at redhat dot com
>>>>> "John" == John David Anglin <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca> writes:
>> What goes wrong building libgcj on hpux? Nobody has ever tried it, as
>> far as I know, but it might not be too hard to make it work,
>> especially if the GC is working.
John> I haven't tried hpux but Randolph Chung has a preliminary
John> implementation of libffi for hppa-linux. Once this is working,
John> it shouldn't be hard to extend this to hpux. With the libffi
John> implementation, libgcj built without any problems. There were
John> quite a few failures in the java testsuite. These might be
John> related to the libffi implementation.
Quite possible. Did he implement the closure API? That is needed for
the interpreter to work. The other ("normal") API is needed for
reflection.
We should probably set up the test suite to xfail tests when we know
the interpreter won't work.
Tom