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Date:      Fri, 5 Jun 1998 07:55:05 +1000 (EST)
From:      John Birrell  <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
To:        dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson)
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src Makefile
Message-ID:  <199806042155.HAA28193@cimlogic.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980604222326.421J-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> from Doug Rabson at "Jun 4, 98 10:30:56 pm"

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Doug Rabson wrote:
> Separate root and usr would be good, thanks.  Hopefully it shouldn't be
> too much effort to get rtld-elf working for alpha later.

I'm not sure how functional the binaries will be using a FreeBSD kernel
because they use NetBSD syscalls. Things like stat(2) will fail because
of the changes NetBSD made for 1.3. Maybe now would be a good time to
look at changing src/Makefile to do cross worlds, where the programs
built into WORLDTMP are not executed during the build.

I think that rtld-elf is straight forward. I was leaving room for jdp
to work on it - I guess he's been too busy.

I'm working on adding the MIPS style _procedure_table generation code
to ld (elf64-alpha.c) so that there is a runtime_pdr for exception
handling for modula-3, and therefore cvsup. This functionality is
specified in DEC's AXP Calling Standard. I'm surprised that binutils
hasn't got it (there is actually some of the code there, but it's
#ifdef'd out).

-- 
John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/
CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137

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