[M3devel] CM3 on IA64?

[Jay K]

Mark, don't download any .tgz.Use cvs to checkout the entire source tree.Later..  - Jay
 > Subject: RE: [M3devel] CM3 on IA64?
> From: mark at wickensonline.co.uk
> To: jay.krell at cornell.edu
> CC: m3devel at elegosoft.com
> Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 07:02:43 +0100
> 
> Hi Jay,
> 
> I've downloaded and unpacked 
> 
> -rw-r--r-- 1 msw msw   276571 Oct  4 06:51 cm3-scripts-5.8.6-REL.tgz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 msw msw 89649351 Oct  4 06:46 cm3-src-all-5.8.6-REL.tgz
> 
> (I assume the first is contained in the 2nd?) but I don't see the script
> scripts/python/bootstrap.py anywhere.
> 
> You are welcome to ssh access, I'll just need to know when to leave the
> box running.
> 
> Regards, Mark.
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 01:06 +0000, Jay K wrote:
> > Can you give me or any of us ssh access to it?
> > 
> > 
> > Porting is much much easier these days.
> > Really, it is not difficult.
> > If gcc supports the target and the target is reasonably Posix
> > compliant, there is almost nothing to do.
> > These are both true for Linux/ia64.
> > 
> > 
> > Can you try?
> > 
> > 
> > See
> > http://modula3.elegosoft.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/cm3/doc/notes/porting.txt?rev=1.6;content-type=text%2Fplain
> > 
> > 
> > or just go ahead and
> > 
> > 
> >   cd scripts/python  
> >   ./bootstrap.py IA64_LINUX  
> > 
> > 
> > It *might* just work.
> > It will certainly almost work.
> > There is really very little to it.
> > There never was a whole lot really, but there is a lot less now.
> > A big part used to be rewriting /usr/include in Modula-3, which was
> > tedious, error-prone, and unsafe.
> > That is gone now.
> > Before pthreads, another part was dissecting jmpbuf.
> > That is gone now -- even for user threads.
> > 
> > 
> >  - Jay
> > 
> > > Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 23:18:17 +0100
> > > From: mark at wickensonline.co.uk
> > > To: m3devel at elegosoft.com
> > > Subject: [M3devel] CM3 on IA64?
> > > 
> > > Hi guys,
> > > 
> > > Has anyone attempted a port of CM3 to Itanium architecture?
> > > I've recently installed gentoo on my ZX6000 and it's all running
> > very 
> > > nicely.
> > > My thoughts turned to what would be involved in getting Modula-3
> > running.
> > > 
> > > Kind regards, Mark.
> > > 
> > 
> 
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