I've been looking into various issues that show up in non-intel architectures (i.e. SPARC and PowerPC).
I've been using these platforms: - Linux/Sparc (Debian) - Linux/PowerPC (Debian) - Solaris/Sparc (Solaris 10) SPARC 32 and 64 bit may be different in some cases... so that's fun too. A large number of issues are common across all three. (and PowerPC is really useful due to having a Valgrind port). There is a bug in sorting that i'm tracking down that seems to be responsible for a lot of test failures (so close there). Some more alignment issues on SPARC (due to memory alloc calls that allocate multiple things at once, and the non-first one ends up being incorrectly aligned and you end up with SIGBUS). Some systems will trap SIGBUS and just give you slow memory access instead. The whole getopt/variables thing is so fundamentally broken when it comes to type safety (subtly break at runtime, not even warn during build) that I want to rewrite hunks of it so that these bugs (like assuming size_t is the same as uint64_t which is the same as ulong) are build errors, not runtime breakage. Time estimate: maybe another week or two to get all combinations of the above up to the same level as 32/64bit intel). (it largely depends on difficulty of some things hit). -- Stewart Smith _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
