Re: [GSoC] the AMD64 port

2008-03-18 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:36:32PM +0200, Jordan Gordeev wrote: > 1. Does porting require messing with the source code of gcc/binutils/gdb? Not much, if at all. > 2. Do I need to have an AMD64 machine with more than 4 GB RAM to be able > to fully test my work? No. > 3. Would I be required t

Re: [GSoC] the AMD64 port

2008-03-18 Thread Sascha Wildner
Matthew Dillon wrote: :I'm a student interested in doing the AMD64 port as a Google Summer of :Code project. :I would like to have some questions answered, in order to be able to :make an informed decision. : 1. Does porting require messing with the source code of gcc/binutils/gdb? This m

Re: [GSoC] the AMD64 port

2008-03-18 Thread Matthew Dillon
I'll add my response to Simon's, we basically say the same thing :-) :I'm a student interested in doing the AMD64 port as a Google Summer of :Code project. :I would like to have some questions answered, in order to be able to :make an informed decision. : 1. Does porting require messing wit

Re: [GSoC] the AMD64 port

2008-03-18 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Jordan Gordeev wrote: 1. Does porting require messing with the source code of gcc/binutils/gdb? maybe. the basic infrastructure is in place however and also seems to be able to produce amd64 binaries of some sort. 2. Do I need to have an AMD64 machine with more than 4 GB RAM to be able t

[GSoC] the AMD64 port

2008-03-18 Thread Jordan Gordeev
I'm a student interested in doing the AMD64 port as a Google Summer of Code project. I would like to have some questions answered, in order to be able to make an informed decision. 1. Does porting require messing with the source code of gcc/binutils/gdb? 2. Do I need to have an AMD64 machine w