Subject: Re: VAX ELF toolchain is now self-hosting
To: None <port-arm@netbsd.org>
From: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
List: port-arm
Date: 02/25/2002 11:04:30
[this was meant for port-vax. sigh.]
At 11:02 AM 2/25/2002 -0800, Matt Thomas wrote:
>This weekend I successfully used a VAX ELF system to do
>a VAX ELF netbsd build. So VAX ELF has achieved the state
>and being able to build itself.
>
>There are still issues to be dealt before turning the switch:
>
> 1) add ELF flags for the indicate whether either GFLOAT
> or DFLOAT, and whether code is NONPIC.
> 2) remove some unneeded RELOCs that are leftover from the
> m68k code I started from.
> 3) Reworking setjmp/longjmp to be more normal and not
> unwind the stack restoring registers.
> 4) Make sure DWARF/DWARF2 works (including exception
> unwinding code).
> 5) Add a.out->ELF transition code in sysinst.
> 6) figure out why awk works @ -O but not -O2
>
>
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Matt Thomas Internet: matt@3am-software.com
3am Software Foundry WWW URL: http://www.3am-software.com/bio/matt/
Cupertino, CA Disclaimer: I avow all knowledge of this message