On Nov 15, 2:29am, tsut...@ceres.dti.ne.jp (Izumi Tsutsui) wrote: -- Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch/atari/stand/installboot
| Hmm. How about -fno-strict-aliasing? Hmm, no :-) | > | > That works... | > | > | - be16enc(9) | > | > I don't see how that helps... | | There are two points: | | - The port page says "keeping it working is the responsibility of the | user community" for Tier II port, and there is a user who has a real | machine and said "I'll check tomorrow", so you don't have to rush to | commit fixes you cannot test. | | - The MD installboot implementation heavily depends on hardware specific | features but there are few documents and descriptions about such hardware | except existing source code, so it's much more important to keep | intention of the original author in such MD code for future readers | than appeasing strict modern compilers by mechanical changes. | Furthermore, unexpected bugs could often slip in by such untested | mechanical changes and it makes harder to track problems in future. Well, the code should be functionally equivalent and I doubt that anyone has ever tested the atari installboot in a little endian machine. Or the vax one on atari, which was the other bug that gcc found and could have never worked... | I'm still trying to get atari booting with HAVE_GCC=48, | but there are still more problems... | (sysinst floppy overflow, sed(1) in the install floppy dumps core, etc) How can I help? Is there an emulator? christos
