Re: powerpc relocations

[Mark Brinicombe <mark%causality.com@localhost>]

On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Matt Thomas wrote:

> At 03:20 AM 11/14/98 , Mark Brinicombe wrote:
> >Hi,
> >  I'm taking a look at the powerpc code in preperation for a port that I
> >plan on doing and have a few questions. Sorry if these are things that
> >have come up before and been thrashed to death in earlier discussions.
> >
> >1. EGCS - Are the known problems with EGCS and powerpc-netbsd configs ? I
> >noticed that the powerpc port has not yet switched. Is this due to code
> >problems or more a problem with time for testing and compiler warning
> >cleanup cycles etc. ?
> >
> >2. Shared libs - Are there any major obsticles or flaws that are
> >preventing shared libraries or is it a time / resource problem ?
> 
> I think that both are due to lack of resources.  There aren't a lot of
> people banging on the powerpc port(s).

OK well myself and several others will be banging on a version of netbsd
running on powerpc hardware so hopefully we will be able to get these
things going and feed them back.

Cheers,
                                Mark