Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 11:22:17 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Open Watcom compiler Message-ID: <20030211192217.GD2881@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <15945.1278.292937.743702@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> References: <20030211003353.GA12187@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <15945.1278.292937.743702@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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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
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