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Date:      Fri, 6 Sep 2002 17:08:25 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mozilla failure on 4.6.2
Message-ID:  <20020907000825.GA4091@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <15737.2550.488154.4401@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
References:  <20020906040641.GA61111@xor.obsecurity.org> <1031287598.361.2.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> <15736.40749.986834.818558@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <1031329151.342.9.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> <20020906194732.GA2244@dragon.nuxi.com> <15737.2550.488154.4401@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 04:03:02PM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
>  > On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 12:19:09PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
>  > > http://www.mozilla.org/unix/tru64.html
>  > > 
>  > > It applies to Tru64, but it hints that Alpha Linux is the only platform
>  > > capable of compiling Mozilla for Alpha using GCC.  The Compaq C++
>  > > compiler is, unfortunately, not ported to FreeBSD.
>  > 
>  >     2.There is xptcall code for g++ running under Linux/alpha. This code
>  >     would be a good place to start writing a Tru64 implementation. The
>  >     vtable format is different between g++ running under Linux and Tru64,
>  > 
>  > This should not be the case for FreeBSD -- meaning we are using the same
>  > vtable format as AlphaLinux now.
> 
> You're probably still catching up.. but my tests using TestXPTCInvoke.cpp
> from /usr/ports/www/mozilla-devel/work/mozilla/xpcom/reflect/xptcall/tests
> indicates that the linux/alpha code does not work for us.
> 
> This was tested on -stable, built as of last night.

The vtable format in stable is not the same as AlphaLinux, it is the same
in -CURRENT.  Do we know if the results you posted also happen on
-CURRENT?

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