[Mono-dev] Building Mono on Linux/Alpha

[Zoltan Varga]

                                    Hi,

  There is some documentation of the JIT in mono/docs. It is not very
organized, but
contains lots of useful info, particularly mini-porting.txt.

                         Zoltan

On 1/24/06, Sergey Tikhonov <tsv at solvo.ru> wrote:
> Sergey Tikhonov wrote:
>
> > Jonathan Pryor wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 20:27 +0300, Sergey Tikhonov wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> 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....
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> 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...
> >>
> >>
> > 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).
>
> Ok, after some debugging - it seems that interpreter works correctly
> with mscorlib.dll from "monolite"
> class/lib directory, but fails with newly built mscorlib.dll. Any way I
> hit to "unsupported" feature...
>
> Any links/hints what is required to create JIT? I looked through the
> site and didn't find any usefull info...
> Only source code is the documentation?
>
> Thank you,
>
> --
> Sergey Tikhonov
> Solvo Ltd.
> tsv at solvo.ru
>
>