Dear Itanium specialists,
A while ago, I got the "IRAF" package accepted into Debian [1]. Although
the code is claimed to be portable, it needs a piece of assembler
code for each platform that provides a (sort of) setjmp() to their
Fortran variant.
A "C" implementation for this looks like:
#include <setjmp.h>
int zsvjmp_( long *buf, long *status ) {
*status = 0;
((long **)buf)[0] = status;
return sigsetjmp ((void *)((long **)buf+1),0);
}
however this does not work, since the "sigsetjmp" call needs to be
replaced by a jump to sigsetjmp instead.
There is already some working code for x64 in the original distribution:
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.file "zsvjmp.s"
.globl zsvjmp_
.type zsvjmp_, @function
zsvjmp_:
# %rsi ... &status %rdi ... &jumpbuf
movq %rsi, (%rdi) # store &status in jmpbuf[0]
movl $0, (%rsi) # zero the value of status
addq $8, %rdi # change point to &jmpbuf[1]
movl $0, %esi # change arg2 to zero
jmp __sigsetjmp@PLT # let sigsetjmp do the rest
.section .note.GNU-stack,"",@progbits
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The "zdojmp" counterpart is a portable C function.
I created a small repository [2] that contains the assembler I collected
so far as well as two test programs.
However, I have no idea how to write the same for the ia64 platform.
Maybe someone could help me here? Preferably under the IRAF
license [3], so that it can be included upstream later.
One way that worked for x32 and for arm64 was to compule the C snipped
above (having the sigsetjmp function name by something else) with an
optimizing compiler; however I didn't find cross compiler with the ia64
target?
There is no request from the users to have this ported to ia64, and I
doubt that ever will. My main motivation to get it ported is to check
the package for hidden problems on "unusual" architectures.
Best regards
Ole
[1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/iraf
[2] https://github.com/olebole/zsvjmp
[3] https://iraf-community.github.io/COPYRIGHT.html
