[Mono-dev] Building Mono on Linux/Alpha

[Sergey Tikhonov]

Jonathan Pryor wrote:

>On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 20:27 +0300, Sergey Tikhonov wrote:
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>>Well, it it really pity since it seem that even this "unsupported" 
>>interpretator does a lot of work and give chance other arches
>>to try Mono. :) Ok, I will see if I could find what the problem is....
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>The problem is that it's impossible to have a 100% portable interpreter,
>because of  internal calls and P/Invoke.  Both of these invoke native
>code, either within the runtime itself or within a shared library, and
>this requires processor-specific code to place parameters in the correct
>registers, etc.
>
>Since processor-specific code is required *anyway*, it was considered
>reasonable to just require the JIT for most uses, since (afaik) the JIT
>doesn't require _much_ more custom code than the marshaling code already
>required...
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Ok, I just thought that the problem I have is somewhat simple. Anyway, I 
think I found the way
how to track it down (so far it fails in ctor of System.Decimal and 
based on interpreter trace the
ctor is called with some bogus params).

The arch code for JIT is more complex that "trampline" code for 
interpreter (based on the arch JIT code
for other arches). Any links/clues what is required for JIT are welcome. :)

Thank you,
Sergey.