[M3devel] PPC_LINUX breaks

[Jay]

I figured out a bunch here.

a) the diffs I showed.

b) "nip" is "next instruction pointer"; that's what you want in the SegV function.
And the last parameter should be void_star instead of int.
You can use like pt_regs.nip for the old definition or uc_regs.gprregs[PT_NIP] for the new definition.
I have diffs here.

c) Usignal.i3 had the stuff vtalarm stuff removed, which PPC_LINUX still uses, "POSIX threads" vs. "PThreads" (oh the names..), though perhaps broken by setjmp/longjmp "scrambling".

Is it possible to break up an interface into

linux-common/foo.i3
linux-ppc/foo.i3

I think not.

Shall we just go ahead and translate LINUX_PPC pthread.h into Modula-3? (Btw, doesn't anyone find all this header rewriting sleazy? Or they have to maintain compat anyway so no problem?)

The error messages are poor.

Let's say I.T does not exist.

VAR x : I.T;  (* no error *)
x.foo = bar; (* "unknown qualification" *)

FROM I IMPORT T; (* "T not exported" -- better, but should say T does not exist
 I was fumbling around with needing a module to say "EXPORTS" or to capitalize
 the Interface directive in m3makefile, neither of which seemed right
 *)

 - Jay

> From: hosking at cs.purdue.edu
> Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 09:43:31 -0500
> To: stsp at elego.de
> CC: m3devel at elegosoft.com
> Subject: Re: [M3devel] PPC_LINUX breaks
> 
> Has anyone built PPC_LINUX?  I've never tried.
> 
> On Jan 4, 2008, at 9:15 AM, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 10:09:22PM +0000, Jay wrote:
> >>
> >> I can't build PPC_LINUX.
> >
> > It's been broken at least since the 5.4 release was made.
> >
> > Back then I failed to build it, and we decided to drop
> > it from the 5.4 release. It needs fixing.
> >
> > -- 
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