Re: [fpc-devel] PPC64 port

2005-04-23 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 23 Apr 2005, at 11:17, Nikolay Nikolov wrote: I think it depends if other people are working on it as well. How many people are working on it? We don't and can't know that. At least 2 people have asked questions until now, at least. Jonas ___ fpc-dev

Re: [fpc-devel] PPC64 port

2005-04-23 Thread Nikolay Nikolov
Florian Klaempfl wrote: I think it depends if other people are working on it as well. How many people are working on it? ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel

Re: [fpc-devel] PPC64 port

2005-04-19 Thread Marco van de Voort
I'd recommend adding a few stages: > I would consider the following levels of porting: > - good test results (20-30 failures is a good results for non i386) > - make cycle - create minimal program that links to C (I used the ncurses tests typically) - fix important testsuite tests (texception

Re: [fpc-devel] PPC64 port

2005-04-19 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 19 apr 2005, at 17:44, peter green wrote: have they deliberately put a bomb in there to make in near impossible for them to actually win anything. Several tier 2 prizes have already been won (you can see that if you register for an account, log in and go to the page to submit a port). how are

Re: [fpc-devel] PPC64 port

2005-04-19 Thread Matthias Hryniszak
ROTFL, that's how things go when "money" becomes an issue. Regards, Matthias. - Original Message - From: "peter green" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "FPC developers' list" Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 5:44 PM Subject: RE: [fpc-devel] PPC64 po

RE: [fpc-devel] PPC64 port

2005-04-19 Thread peter green
> "DO NOT CONTACT THE JUDGES DIRECTLY. ANY ENTRANT WHO CONTACTS THE > JUDGES DIRECTLY FOR ANY REASON WILL BE IMMEDIATELY DISQUALIFIED." > > We are the judges for this port. I assume "posting on a mailing list" > does not constitute "contacting judges directly", but better be safe > than sorry. > >

Re: [fpc-devel] PPC64 port

2005-04-19 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 19 apr 2005, at 17:20, Florian Klaempfl wrote: I think it depends if other people are working on it as well. I would consider the following levels of porting: - good test results (20-30 failures is a good results for non i386) - make cycle - makepack.sh - run the ide - run lazarus Of course, ano

Re: [fpc-devel] PPC64 port

2005-04-19 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Thomas Schatzl wrote: > > Finally I've got some more general question on the challenge: > > What does "must be optimized for 64-bit platforms" in the challenge > details mean? Usage of 64 bit address space. > In the same sense I'd like to ask if you could specify some sort of > minimum requirem

Re: [fpc-devel] PPC64 port

2005-04-18 Thread Peter Vreman
> Hello, > >I've been working on the PPC64-port for the Linux on Power contest > for some time now, and finally have some questions I'd like to ask for > here: > > Some introduction: I am trying to use the PPC64-ELF ABI for all > generated methods, first because of compatibility issues (I belie

[fpc-devel] PPC64 port

2005-04-18 Thread Thomas Schatzl
Hello, I've been working on the PPC64-port for the Linux on Power contest for some time now, and finally have some questions I'd like to ask for here: Some introduction: I am trying to use the PPC64-ELF ABI for all generated methods, first because of compatibility issues (I believe it's neede