Bhaskar has been quiet because he was on vacation for two weeks, and has been catching up with his e-mail since his return on Monday morning, August 22. Since his return and diligent attempt to get through things that accumulated in his absence, the number of unread e-mail messages in his Inbox has *increased* by 20. My catching up with hardhats will be slow, and if there is something that you think I should reply to but have not, please do point me to it with an offline e-mail. Thank you very much.
I would guess that for someone with a solid Computer Science background and who is comfortable around compilers, run time systems, stack frames, etc., porting GT.M for x86 GNU/Linux to Mac would be on the order of a couple hundred person days. The change from Linux to FreeBSD would be trivial, and indeed members of the GT.M community report being able to hack GT.M to run on FreeBSD on x86. Big endian vs. little endian is a non-issue. I have successfully demonstrated VistA on GT.M on IBM pSeries AIX, which is a big endian machine. Incidentally, the comments about the Alpha being big endian are incorrect - x86 (and the AMD x64), VAX, and Alpha/AXP architectures are all little endian. IBM Power (pSeries) and mainframe (zSeries), Sun SPARC, and HP PA-RISC are big endian. Itanium can be either - Linux and OpenVMS use it as a little endian machine and HP-UX uses it as a big endian machine. -- Bhaskar On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 18:58 -0500, David Sommers wrote: > I believe the issue was related to compiler specific "optimizations" > in > the C implementation of the M compiler. Bhaskar's been quiet lately > but > we've discussed this on the list before. I was interested because I > simply love my MAC. > [KSB] <...snip...> ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
