[Mono-dev] IA-64 big-endian

[Zoltan Varga]

Some things:

- the instruction emission macros need to be changed so they emit in
big-endian
  mode. that should be pretty easy.
- other than that, I'm not sure what needs to be changed, I would try
running the runtime
  test suites to see what works and what doesn't.
- you probably need to read ia64 architecture manual at some point if you
run into
  problems.

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 12:03 AM, pablosantosluac at terra.es <
pablosantosluac at terra.es> wrote:

> 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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