[cmucl-help] Re: [cmucl-imp] Solaris users?

[Raymond Toy (RT/EUS)]

Chun Tian (binghe) wrote:
> And,
> 
> 3) If I want to bootstrap CMUCL on sparc, which C compiler should I use, 
> GCC or SunStudio compilers?

I've been using SunStudio 11 compilers for a while now instead of gcc,
but gcc is supposed to work.  But according to comments in
Config.sun4_solaris_gcc, debugging is painful with gdb > 4.18 and gdb
4.18 doesn't like binaries produced by gcc 3.3.3 or later.

I haven't actually built with gcc for a while now.

Ray

[cmucl-help] Re: [cmucl-imp] Solaris users?

[Raymond Toy (RT/EUS)]

Chun Tian (binghe) wrote:
> Hi, rtoy
> 
> I tried to run CMUCL on Solaris 10 today. The downloaded 
> cmucl-2008-08-sparcv9-solaris8.tar.bz2 works fine, but I have some 
> questions:
> 
> 1) CMUCL on sparc is a 32-bit application (though Solaris 10 only 
> support 64-bit SPARC CPU), am I right?

Yes, that's correct.  But all versions of solaris support 32-bits apps
just fine.

> 2) There's no MP support on sparc (because I see no :MP in *features*), 
> am I right?

That's also correct.  I think it's possible to add MP, but I've never
needed it, so I never did.  Don't think it would be too hard to do;
basically port over a few vops for stack switching/copying, and update
some of the stuff in multiproc.lisp to handle alien objects correctly.
I thinnk.

Ray

[cmucl-help] Re: [cmucl-imp] Solaris users?

[Raymond Toy (RT/EUS)]

Chun Tian (binghe) wrote:

Hi,

What's your Solaris 10 box? x86, x86_64, or sparc64?


Oh, sorry.  This is sparc.  We haven't supported anything less than a 
sparc v9 in years.


There is no version of CMUCL for solaris on x86.  Would you like one?

Ray