On Thursday 27 October 2005 07:21, Chris Lattner wrote: > On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Richard Emslie wrote: > > Ooops - sorry about the horrible subject in last mail (it's late) > > Which externs do you need? Are these for system prototypes or pypy > functions?
With externs in this context we mean functions we need to call from the O.S. (libc). Plus a little wrapper code to make it compatible with Python. (Sometimes raise an exception instead of returning an errorcode, etc.) cheers Eric > > -Chris > > >> cc 'ing pypy-dev, since I cant get to #pypy these days. > >> > >> On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Christian Tismer wrote: > >>> Richard Emslie wrote: > >>>> Did see ll_osdefs.h breaks llvm in horrible ways... > >>> > >>> Aaahrrrgggg!!! > >>> > >>> Why that at all? > >>> Just a brave part of the inclues, taken from CPython ( *gulp* ) > >>> how can this hurt so much ? > >>> > >> :-) Yes arrrggghhhh!! But no fault of yours - just that we use a > >> > >> (llvm) C compiler for externs. If a local compiler is not available, > >> we go to a remote machine to generate llvm code. So local includes are > >> not possible - hence in genllvm we manually include C files from > >> #include statements. :-( > >> > >> Now listdir() uses opaque (dont know if you introduced this or someone > >> else) - and llvm doesnt have proper support for opaque types... yet. > >> So we cannot compile pypy right now. > >> > >>>> will try to fix, but it is becoming more of a hassle trying to > >>>> maintain llvm backend when it is not really giving much back. > >> > >> Sorry for the negativeness. It would be interesting however to have > >> the core developers opinion(s) about backends in general and whether it > >> is believed maintaining it (the llvm one) is a worthwhile goal. > >> > >>> Sorry about that.I tried to make my live easier when I had to port > >>> this listdir() mess, which does not fit winnows at all :-) > >> > >> No need to apologize - the include fix was minor and opaque types are > >> part of rpython and cannot be avoided. :-) > >> > >> Cheers & good nite, > >> Richard > > > > _______________________________________________ > > [email protected] > > http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev > > -Chris _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
