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Re: Reaching out for mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost (was: qe0: xmit logic died, resetting...)



Hi!

On Mon, 2023-09-25 13:17:37 -0400, Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost> wrote:
> > Seems I cannot get emails through to mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost due
> mouse%netbsd.org@localhost is what I'd recommend, especially for this.

Will do!

> > In the end, I'd be very much interested in looking at that additional
> > available VAX simulator
> 
> The only way I have it available at the moment is a world-clonable git
> repo; git://git.rodents-montreal.org/Mouse/emul/vax/full should be the
> thing to clone.  It probably won't work out of the box, though; I
> haven't tried to build it on anything but my own machines, so there are
> probably local idioms built into it.  I expect to be convincing it to
> build on a stock NetBSD system in the near(ish) future, so you may want
> to wait unitl then (unless you want to just read the code).
> 
> If you prefer to avoid git, for whatever reason(s), I can build you a
> tarball and put it up for anonymous FTP, or mail it, or whatever - I'm
> sure we can figure something out.

GIT is perfect. I'll clone it later on, try to build it and maybe dump
some patches in your direction.

> > [...] gain JIT capabilities.  (Maybe that could be done well using
> > libgccjit, in a host-agnostic manner?)
> 
> Maybe!  I was not aware of libgccjit - though I've never looked for
> anything of the sort, so that means little.  I'll have to look into it;
> I can anticipate plenty of possible issues, but none are certain and
> many could likely be worked around.

I haven't worked with it either, but it .. came to my mind and being a
GCC frontend, I hope to have support for a wide range of host systems.

> But I probably will try to build my own JIT for it anyway; part of the
> reason for doing it is that nothing teaches something like implementing
> it, and I'd like to learn more about JITting.

:-)

Thanks!

  Jan-Benedict

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