[Mono-dev] IA-64 big-endian

[pablosantosluac at terra.es]

Zoltan,

Would you mind sharing with us your thoughts about the things to change
so we can have an idea of what's involved?

As Dick pointed, would we need a hardware manual?

Thanks,

	pablo

Zoltan Varga wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>    It would probably require a lot of modifications but its easier than
> a full port since most of
> the code is there.
> 
>                      Zoltan
> 
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Dick Porter <dporter at codicesoftware.com
> <mailto:dporter at codicesoftware.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi all
> 
>     I've been spending the last couple of days getting mono to build on
>     ia-64/hpux - mostly so far setting up GNU tools from scratch.  I've now
>     run into a showstopper:
> 
>     mono/arch/ia64/ia64-codegen.h
> 
>     #if G_BYTE_ORDER != G_LITTLE_ENDIAN
>     #error "FIXME"
>     #endif
> 
> 
>     So my question is, is fixing this going to be a case of a few fixes here
>     and there (that I might be able to do without a hardware manual), or is
>     it going to be a full-blown port?
> 
>     Thanks,
> 
>     - Dick
> 
> 
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