Re: Sparc64 Ports Problems

Artur Grabowski <art@blahonga.org> wrote:

> > Multiple ports seem to compile & install fine, yet do not work at

Most of the ports tree hasn't been tested on alpha either. If you watch many ports building, the sheer number of compiler warnings pointing to LP64 problems is outright scary. I think you could sink a man-year into fixing most of those.

sparc64 is of course opposite to i386 in all respects that concern portability across different architectures: it's 64-bit, big-endian, and requires strict alignment. Plenty of opportunity for your average "all the world's an i386" programmer to screw up.

> or that they are running into bugs in gcc.

While possible, this is least likely.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de