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From: Marco Serantoni marco.serant...@gmail.com
Date:01/03/2014 8:46 PM (GMT-06:00)
To: KiCad Developers kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net
Cc: d...@softplc.com
Subject: TODO: remove this whole if test on or after 14-Jan-2014 and remove
the system/*.s sources if no one complains by then.
Dick,
I’ve to support multiple processors,I’ve just ended to spit blood implementing
it in boost for PPC32 an PPC64 in asm to add support in boost::context. (
https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/8266 ).
Now i’m building all for three platforms, then i’ll try to do a more extensive
testing of kicad applications.
I’ll try to test and change your code if needed, but which is the problem with
using directly boost::context ?
—
Marco
Your work is squarely on the solution path we discussed on the mailing list six
weeks ago: remove assembly language from our project and put newly needed
support, if any, into boost:context and use that. The known missing support at
the time of that discussion was gas support for MINGW.
I added that patch the other day to follow your patches. That puts all work on
the same solution path as discussed.
However, up until yesterday, we were still putting CERN patch into libcommon
for MINGW. That means up until yesterday MINGW builds were taking the CERN
patch in links in preference to mine in boost:context.
In software we don't assume. I was unwilling to assume that CERN s patch and
mine worked equally well because I never tested my mingw boost:context patch.
So I left the referenced if block in libcommon's cmakelists.txt file as an
indicator and as a safety net for MINGW developers. They should remove it when
they are satisfied.
As to your work, I am satisfied with it if you are. Nobody ever bought me a
mac 4 years ago when I offered to support kicad on it. So your testing and
work on the mac is very valuable to the project.
I will stick with linux for the foreseeable future. But have immeasurable
experience developing for windows.
No experience on the mac, so i am glad that you are in good communication with
the project.
BTW, did you read the blueprint on modular kicad?
Duck.
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