Subject: Re: Vortex and pointer sizes
From: Craig Chambers (chambers@cs.washington.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 19 2001 - 16:12:14 PDT
Vortex is already able to generate 64-bit-ptr C code. Check out the gen
options.
-- Craig
ucko@debian.org wrote:
>
> Greetings.
>
> Because I think Cecil is one of the best languages out there, I have
> recently started to work on packaging Vortex 3.0 for Debian
> GNU/Linux. In the process, I have run into some minor issues. Most
> just result from using newer versions of libc and g++ than you tested
> against, and can be fixed by tweaking a line or two of code.
>
> However, there is another issue which is not quite so trivial to
> resolve: Debian GNU/Linux runs on multiple hardware platforms, some of
> which use 64-bit pointers. I see several potential ways to handle
> this situation, the best of which would probably be to modify the
> compiler to produce intermediate code that runs correctly with either
> pointer size (perhaps with some assistance from a configure script run
> at build time).
>
> In order to avoid inadvertently duplicating effort, I would like to
> know whether you have any patches to 3.0 along those lines. (If not,
> no big deal; I ought to be able to throw something together on my
> own.) Conversely, I intend to send you any patches I have when the
> Debian packages are ready for release. I will omit Debian-specific
> code as irrelevant unless you specifically want to see it.
>
> At any rate, keep up the good work.
>
> --
> Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)
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