On May 26, 2018, at 3:26 PM, Gary Mills <gary_mi...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > > On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 11:17:35AM -0400, Richard Lowe wrote: >> They're not different enough to be more than theoretically mechanical >> changes, but are (just) different enough you may not be able to >> _actually_ do it all mechanically. >> Assembler being much more rigid, you'll have an easier time comparing >> the outputs to make sure you're doing the same things -- and of course, >> you having a SPARC to test really helps. > > Are there reference documents that describe the Sun and GNU formats > for SPARC assembly language? That would make it easier to translate > correctly from one to the other.
Hi Garry, we have tried to do some research for GNU AS replacement with illumos build on SPARC - but GNU binutils (GAS) should be updated a little. i have filed som bugs and they was resolved, but not at all. we have used very old SUN AS doc - found by google. GNU AS for sparc documented in sources. but - not finished updates - still need additional work. i can try to found a branch on dilos-illumos with updates, but it is outdated and should be rebased to latest. I have no time right now for this work. for your gcc7 bootstrap issue. as i remember - it was gcc5 last with gcc5+SUN AS possibe bootstrap. from gcc6 on SPARC - we are using gcc6 + GNU AS (GAS) bootstrap. also, we are using 64bit as default. -Igor > -- > -Gary Mills- -refurb- -Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- > > _______________________________________________ > oi-dev mailing list > oi-dev@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list oi-dev@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev