[Mono-dev] Building Mono on Linux/Alpha

[Sergey Tikhonov]

Zoltan Varga wrote:

>                                      Hi,
>
>  Do you mean all tests pass inside mono/tests as well ?

Well. :) Not all of them. I downloaded binaries for regression tests 
from the site and
played with them. I haven't tested all of them, but the ones I tried worked.
Ok, I guess I am trying to get it working too fast. :) btw, I've just 
almost got mcs.exe
telling that I supplied "no files" (found stupid bug in opcode 
generation), but it got into "format problem"
and thrown an exception.

> As for get_vcall_slot_addr, the amd64 version is complex because the 
> amd64
> backend generates many types of call sequences. It needs to handle the
> machine code generated for the CALL_REG and CALL_MEMBASE opcodes.

Ok. Alpha does function call only to an address loaded into a register, 
so I guess it might be
really just one case for alpha.

> As for string.format (), it is a pretty complex method, try looking at
> its source code
> and convert it into a self contained testcase, then try to simplify it
> until you find
> the root of the problem.

Ok, I will. I just hoped that there were such test cases. :)

Thank you,
Sergey.

tsv at solvo.ru
Solvo Ltd.