On Sun, Jun 07, 2020 at 08:14:14AM +0200, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 07, 2020 at 07:57:09AM +0200, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Jun 06, 2020 at 08:29:38PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> >
> > > +CC otto@, do you remember the status of context/coroutine on sparc64?
> > > I think they were crashing weren't they?
> >
> > I think they were fixed with a compiler patch.
>
> Looking back I might have mixed things up. The conpiler patch fixed
> exception handling on sparc64. pdns_recursor is a heavy user of
> boost-md. I can try to build it and see how things go.
>
Looking a bit closes I can see that the userland context switching
primitives are not there in
/usr/ports/pobj/boost_1_66_0/boost_1_66_0/libs/context/src so that
part is not going to fly. There might be other parts though that are
interesting and make boost-md worthwhile to build for sparc64.
-Otto
