On Sep 23, 2008, at 9:10 AM, Darin Adler wrote: > On Sep 23, 2008, at 9:04 AM, Jon Shier wrote: > >> First, am I correct in thinking that some refactoring needs to be >> done before other architectures can be supported? > > We plan to do the refactoring as we add new architectures. The best > person to talk to about that is Gavin Barraclough. The next > architecture on the roadmap is X86-64.
Jon, Mario, As Darin says, we plan to look at x86-64 in the very near future. We see this as a good gateway to further architectures (as well as being an important architecture in its own right for SFX to support). It will force us to address a number of issues that many ports may face (pointers being larger than the size of immediate operands, setting memory protection on code buffers spring to mind) – whilst clearly having a lot in common with the existing x86 code generation. It should also see us start to introduce a layer of abstraction between the compiler and the architecture specific assembler. cheers, G. _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
