Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [imcc...]
> >>>* Bytecode format > > > > ... We could use existing ELF tools to, at the very least, > > provide test result verification. > > > This is an argument. If we get e.g. bsr fixup at load time done by the > elf loader, it would be nice. > > > OTOH fixup is not complicated (imcc does it), but when we have > e.g. native dynamic libraries mixed with PBC, and ELF does the right > thing, it would be an advantage. Using gdb is another nice feature - > but what with different platforms not having all these tools? For our own bytecode format there are also platforms not having this tools: All. So its a bit less discriminating but not necessary better. Dynamic libraries are not simple, and if we get it for free one platform this is a good thing. Use it on other platforms is a matter of porting ld.so (which is far from simple). bye b. -- Juergen Boemmels [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fachbereich Physik Tel: ++49-(0)631-205-2817 Universitaet Kaiserslautern Fax: ++49-(0)631-205-3906 PGP Key fingerprint = 9F 56 54 3D 45 C1 32 6F 23 F6 C7 2F 85 93 DD 47
