Sandro Tolaini writes: > > On 10/mar/2006, at 20:42, Tom Tromey wrote: > > > libffi and mudflap were covered by Paolo and Andrew. > > I have done some work on sysv.S and now libffi compiles fine on OSX/ > Intel. Unfortunately, I had to put some #ifdef __APPLE__ this file > because Apple ships an old cctools with as that doesn't understand > some directives. My patch works on the 4.0 branch, I tried it on the > 4.2 branch but libffi has changed in such a way that compiling it > with the Apple as is not easily feasible (and I don't chew enough > assembly code to change it).
You need to build everything from the same branch: gcc, libffi, everything. Don't use some other compiler. > > For libjava some porting may be required, though it shouldn't be very > > much. > > libjava compiled out-of-the-box after tweaking the configure scripts. > For boehm, I copied the one in the 4.2 branch and applied a patch > that Hans should have already put in the current CVS version. > > > For best results you will want to make sure that the code to turn > > signals into exceptions works properly. This is both OS- and > > architecture dependent. I haven't looked at the x86 darwin port, > > perhaps some gcc hacking is required. > > How can I try this? Is there some test case I can use? To begin with, don't worry about it. You can have a fully-working port without handling these traps, because we have default fallback code for memory accesses and divides. Andrew.
