whoops forgot to reply to all :) Hey
Thats pretty cool are you compiling all of them under gcc? Or different compilers also! I am looking to try and benchmark gcc vs sun compilers (compiling drizzle :) ) on linux and on solaris. maby use qemu to emulate sparc to see how it works too would be nice too :). -Phil > 2009/3/6 Monty Taylor <[email protected]>: >> Stewart Smith wrote: >>> 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. >> >> <troll> >> But Stewart - allocating multiple things at a time is better! >> </troll> >> >>> 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. >> >> ++ >> >> Sync with me before you do - this has been a todo item for me for a >> while, and I've got a tree somewhere with an idea sketched out on how to >> make this work sensibly. >> >>> 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). >> >> Whee! >> >> /me looks forward to less pain >> >> Monty >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
