[Mono-list] Alpha port

[Miguel de Icaza]

> Is someone working on an Alpha port for Mono? Is there any interest in it?

Nobody is working on it, and I am sure there is interest in it.

> I don't know anything about Alpha assembler, or about JITers, or about 
> how the internals of Mono work, but I do have access to an Alpha machine 
> and I thought that if no one else is working on it, it would be a good 
> way to get my feet wet :)

You might want to look at the http://www.go-mono.com/porting.html file,
it describes what you need to look into for a new port.

Basically, you want to get the interpreter running first, and once that
is functional, you can look into the JIT engine.

miguel