From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Feb 11 11:22:39 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA79237B401 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 11:22:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns1.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.BAYAREA.NET [209.128.86.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E022D43F93 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 11:22:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@xcllnt.net) Received: from dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net [192.168.4.201]) by ns1.xcllnt.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1BJMI1o017317; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 11:22:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@piii.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: from dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1BJMIl2003017; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 11:22:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: (from marcel@localhost) by dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h1BJMHrM003016; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 11:22:17 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 11:22:17 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Open Watcom compiler Message-ID: <20030211192217.GD2881@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <20030211003353.GA12187@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <15945.1278.292937.743702@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <15945.1278.292937.743702@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 09:13:18AM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > Am I right when I say that Compaq's compiler cannot be used to > > compile the kernel? > > Yes. This is mainly due to lazyness on our part. The Compaq compiler > does not support gcc asm syntanx, so making it compile the kernel > would largely be a matter of converting inline asm (as well as > stepping over other hurdles common to non-gnu compilers). Ok. This mostly applies to OW as well I guess. It's also not specific to alpha, so it would be nice if we could come up with a good way to replace and avoid inline assembly in general without negative side- effects like duplication, performance hits and the likes... -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message