[M3devel] 64-bit big endian?

[Jay K]

SPARC64_SOLARIS is here:
 
https://modula3.elegosoft.com/cm3/uploaded-archives/index.html
 
 - Jay
 
From: jay.krell at cornell.edu
To: microcode at zoho.com; m3devel at elegosoft.com
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 07:35:28 +0000
Subject: Re: [M3devel] 64-bit big endian?




 > There are a little-endian MIPS64 boxes also,

OpenBSD/loongson? I was running on that.
 
 
We are extremely portable. Endianness is of almost no concern. Processor is of almost no concern.
We use the gcc backend and pthreads for portability. Or Windows.
 The gcc requirement will be relaxed to any C or C++ compiler.
 
 
The system was implemented to be about that portable and I believe I fairly well proved it succeeded. I got it to run on several similar systems that it hadn't run on or hadn't recently run on, and I got close on still others. Give just a bit of time and hardware, I'm IA64/HPUX/Irix/VMS/AIX/Tru64 whatever you can muster, we'll work with it. But most of these systems people don't use anyway.
And, it is getting better. We'll need just a C or C++ compiler, and pthreads or Win32.
We should be about as portable as any "package" on any widely used Posix or Windows system.
Maybe some day we'll even output JavaScript and run in a browser, via emscriptem...
(We'll also remove some of trickier mostly Posix code with cooperative suspend...)
 
 - Jay
 
> Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 18:41:05 +0000
> From: microcode at zoho.com
> To: m3devel at elegosoft.com
> Subject: Re: [M3devel] 64-bit big endian?
> 
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 01:22:10PM -0500, Rodney M. Bates wrote:
> > I accidentally found the answer to this while working on a different problem.
> > The files in cminstall/src/config-no-install/<machine>.common, etc. contain both
> > endianness and word size for the targets we support.  These are also installed
> > in /usr/local/cm3/bin/config.
> > 
> > HPPA64, MIPS64, SPARC64
> 
> MIPS is a bi-endian platform. There are a little-endian MIPS64 boxes also,
> but I guess from your post M3 wouldn't support them.
> 
> SPARC64 is also technically bi-endian for data although I don't know if any
> OS runs little-endian on it. All the "normal" stuff that runs on it is big
> endian.
> 
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