+1
Pavel Ozhdikhin wrote:
Rana,
I think now it's just a right time to start this work. It would be good if
you do preliminary examination of which areas need to be fixed for 64 bit
Windows in VM/JIT. I don't think there will be many problems eith enabling
on the JIT side - so far optimizations which do not work on EM64 (for
example those requiring fs:14 for TLS access) are turned off there.
Thanks,
Pavel
On 11/30/06, Rana Dasgupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This port would be really good to have, but not urgent. Obviously, the
biggest change is in the JIT. At the moment, I think that we should focus
on
stabilizing and performing on the 3 major platforms we are functional on.
The IPF port is also in progress. However, with the Vista releases early
next year? ( 32 and 64 bits ), 64 bit Windows will be a major platform
and
we will need to be on it. I am going to start going thru DRLVM to
identify
functional areas and implementation that need to change, play around with
the Microsoft 64 bit toolsets( ML64 assembler, CL, LINK, Visual Studio 64
bit ) etc. and start putting together a Windows64 porting guide on the
Wiki.
Or is it too early to do this?
Thanks.
On 11/29/06, Rana Dasgupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> In 32 bit mode or 64 bit mode? We are not ported/functional yet on 64
bit
> Windows for exception handling, JIT etc. No [fs:14] for TLS access,
windows
> handles are 8 bytes, all the inline asm{} needs to go away, most data
types
> are different...More changes than Linux 32 -> Linux 64. I would think
that
> the work involved would be somewhat similar to an IPF port. Certainly
worth
> doing though.
>
> On 11/29/06, Geir Magnusson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > +1
> >
> > we do want to support this platform, but need an installed 64bit
windows
> > machine to work on - or at least someone to have it and give us
> > feedback.
> >
> >
> >
> > Tim Ellison wrote:
> > > Alexey Varlamov wrote:
> > >> BTW, are we interested in supporting Windows on x86_64? It is
listed
> > >> on [1] but seems nobody really tests.
> > >
> > > Yes! Do you have a machine to contribute to the build/test?
I'm up
> > for
> > > helping to fix problems.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Tim
> > >
> >
>
>
