Subject: RE: port for powerpc
From: [email-masked] (Sergey Okhapkin)

10 Jul 1997 08:07:43 -0700
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        "'Geoffrey Noer'"
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Geoffrey Noer wrote:
> You may be able to build yourself a powerpcle-cygwin32 native
> toolchain by starting on a Linux box, doing a configure with
> --target=powerpcle-cygwin32, running the make and install.
> Then do another configure with --build=i486-linux 
--host=powerpcle-cygwin32
> --target=powerpcle-cygwin32 and see what happens.  If this all
> succeeds you'd have a native powerpcle-cygwin32 toolchain.
>
> This was not tested for the beta 17-18 releases so this might
> not go smoothly.

Exception/signal support in exceptions.cc is completely broken for ppc 
version. PPC call_handler should be modified according to new 
arguments/semantics like i386 version. There should not be other 
incompatibilities in winsup sources.

--
Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia
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