[Mono-dev] Running Mono on 32bits-big endian PowerPC

[Mathieu Malaterre]

Hi all,

Thanks for the explanation for '-d', that was obvious :)

I can compile mono (make V=1 PROFILE=basic) on PowerPC system using:

./autogen.sh --prefix=$HOME/blah --disable-parallel-mark
--with-gc=none --enable-checked-build=all --disable-nls --with-sgen=no

So clearly there is something going on wrong with sgen-* code and
multithread(s) on PPC.

I have two questions-:
- Does MONO_THREADS_PER_CPU=1 control the number of threads created by
sgen-gc implementation ? It does not seems so on my side.
- Is there a way for me to run the sgen implementation test suite ? I
suspect that such a large piece of code must have some low level
test-suite ? Same question: is there a way to make it more debug
friendly (the runtime MONO_GC_DEBUG=1 is a bit limited) ?

Thanks much again.

bonus question: could someone please comment on:

https://github.com/mono/mono/commit/cb86279a08ede87d641f5a84308d09d17e9f9816

Check the line that read:

[...]
mgreg_t regs [19]; /*FIXME, this must be changed to 32 for sgen*/
[...]

Regards

On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 3:06 PM, Alexander Köplinger
<alexander.koeplinger at xamarin.com> wrote:
> ASYNC is just a #ifdef symbol which gets defined when the -d option is
> passed to the compiler (basic.exe in this case, which is basically the mcs
> C# compiler).
>
> You would need to look into the .cs files mentioned in
> System.Xml.dll.sources to find out which pieces of the code light up when
> that symbol is defined.
> From there on you can try reducing the test case to a small repro sample
> that you can debug.
>
> As Jo said in his email, I'd also suggest looking at the 4.4
> release/branches since those will be the next stable release in the near
> future.
>
> - Alex
>
> 2016-04-01 9:37 GMT+02:00 Mathieu Malaterre <malat at debian.org>:
>>
>> My initial post was a bit vague. Let me rephrase it.
>>
>> I am trying to solve the following issue:
>>
>> https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=40037
>>
>> I would like to know where is the documentation for the '-d:ASYNC'
>> documentation ? I've naively tried:
>>
>> % ./mono basic.exe --help
>> [...]
>>   -define:S1[;S2]      Defines one or more conditional symbols (short: -d)
>> [...]
>>
>> Which is missing the information for the 'ASYNC' meaning.
>>
>> Regards.
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