On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Archie Cobbs wrote: > Gerlando Falauto wrote: > > > Compiling kaffe on linux with CFLAGS -ansi -pedantic > > > first, might help fix some of the portability > > > problems. If you do so, please send us the patches. > > > > This is a very neat idea, thanks a lot. I will definitely give it a shot. > > This may be a ridiculous suggestion depending on what else you > will be doing with your new hardware but... you might even consider > trying to port GCC to your new architecture. The process is complicated > but fairly well documented, and not as impossible as it sounds :-)
Actually I do appreciate your suggestion, though you are overestimating my potential. The thing is, the ultimate goal of my thesis would be, if ever, to explore the world of Just-In-Time translation for VLIW processors. To me, it seems already impossible to come up with some almost-working back-end: * for the Kaffe-JIT engine, which appears to me as a mid-size software project * which needs not be aggressively optimized, considering it will have to translate at run-time * from a fairly simple instruction set as the JVM one appears to be Thinking of writing a VLIW back end for GCC (to which none of the above will ever apply), would no doubt make me want to kill myself right away. ;-) By the way, what does everybody know/think of such an experiment (i.e., JIT for VLIW processors)? Given my total lack of knowledge on this field, *ANY* (and I really mean *ANY*) kind of contribution could potentially save my life and/or help me get a degree before my grandchildren do. :') Please save my life, if you can! ;-) Thank you for your patience. Gerlando _______________________________________________ kaffe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kaffe.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kaffe
