Jan de Mooij wrote:
OnThu, Feb 6, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Nicolas B. Pierron
<[email protected]> wrote:
> As they are looking at making a working mobile device, I recommended that
> they also add a MIPS Simulator (which would be added to v8 soon). The MIPS
> Simulator will serve 2 purposes:
> - Check the MIPS backend on Try.
> - Make MIPS testing easier for other devs.
The problem I see with this is that MIPS is a tier-3 platform afaik
and we don't have real MIPS hardware to test on. So what do we do when
we break the MIPS simulator build? What if we add a new feature that
requires MIPS assembler + simulator changes, something similar to the
float32 work that happened? We can do our best to apply
changes/refactorings etc also to the MIPS directory, but I don't think
we can keep MIPS working at all cost with no way to test it...
It'd be up to the MIPS back end initial contributors and anyone else
interested to carry the cost. Tier-3 means we can break it, of course we
should avoid trivially avoidable breakage, but still.
If no one else offers, I'll read MIPS assembly bit. I <3 MIPS.
/be
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