Subject: Re: 2.0 isn't self-building
To: Tom Ivar Helbekkmo <tih@eunetnorge.no>
From: None <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 03/03/2005 09:32:01
> I wrote:
> 
> > I can use Emacs, and I do, but it's incredibly easy to crash it:
> > anything that explicitly changes input focus to the minibuffer will,
> > for instance, cause it to go down in flames immediately.  ("M-x",
> > for instance, or "C-f".)
> 
> That should be "C-xC-f", of course.
> 
> > PostgreSQL 8.0.1 building now.  :-)
> 
> ...and it works fine.
> 
> All in all, it looks to me as if -current on VAX works perfectly, with
> the single exception that libm uses the "polyd" instruction, which
> isn't supported on my VAX, a KA680 (in a 4000-500).  I suspect this
> means that applications that use that instruction will fail on quite
> a few different models of VAXen, right?
> 
The emulation code for polyd is in place; I wrote it 5 years ago and
Brandon Creighton did a bunch of cleanup and added emodd,  see
vax/vax/unimpl_emul.S.  So I think it's some kind of bug in the
emulation code that should be searched for.

-- Ragge