From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Giorgos Keramidas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: configure.in support for FreeBSD ia64/sparc64/powerpc Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:36:06 +0200 Message-ID: <87r63qa9t5.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <200611032145.kA3Ljj6x078515@kobe.laptop> <87irhv28mx.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <20061106141015.GB3755@kobe.laptop> <18763.42713.941380.795066@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> <200812191716.mBJHG0oC016436@mothra.ics.uci.edu> <18763.58258.187720.412172@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> <18765.64802.798989.140892@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> <18777.10265.165132.46162@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> <200812291954.mBTJsKnJ027581@mothra.ics.uci.edu> <18777.12531.501647.9714@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> <200812292039.mBTKdate027716@mothra.ics.uci.edu> <87tz8mu0a3.fsf@kobe.laptop> <200812292206.mBTM644Y028007@mothra.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1230590211 8778 80.91.229.12 (29 Dec 2008 22:36:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:36:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ulrich Mueller , Chong Yidong , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 29 23:37:57 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LHQkG-0003jT-TD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:37:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53906 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LHQj2-0000jl-Jw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:36:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LHQix-0000jU-1U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:36:35 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LHQiv-0000jF-Oz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:36:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40600 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LHQiv-0000jC-Jx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:36:33 -0500 Original-Received: from igloo.linux.gr ([62.1.205.36]:51376) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LHQiu-0001YT-S5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:36:33 -0500 Original-Received: from kobe.laptop (adsl119-205.kln.forthnet.gr [77.49.238.205]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id mBTMa8ia015469 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:36:14 +0200 Original-Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id mBTMa8Hs025734; Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:36:08 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Original-Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id mBTMa6qq025719; Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:36:06 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) In-Reply-To: <200812292206.mBTM644Y028007@mothra.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:06:04 -0800 (PST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (berkeley-unix) X-MailScanner-ID: mBTMa8ia015469 X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-4.299, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.10, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@freebsd.org X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:107401 Archived-At: On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:06:04 -0800 (PST), Dan Nicolaescu wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas writes: > > > On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:39:36 -0800 (PST), Dan Nicolaescu wrote: > > >Ulrich Mueller writes: > > >>> We know for sure that the original code works. > > >> > > >> It doesn't work on FreeBSD. > > > > > > You were proposing to change the Solaris code. > > > > Err, I think there's a misunderstanding here. The src/alloc.c change > > is related to sparc64 not Solaris (not _only_ Solaris, that is): > > > --- a/src/alloc.c Fri Oct 27 15:45:51 2006 +0000 > > +++ b/src/alloc.c Sat Oct 28 01:49:45 2006 +0300 > > @@ -4560,7 +4560,11 @@ mark_stack () > > needed on ia64 too. See mach_dep.c, where it also says inline > > assembler doesn't work with relevant proprietary compilers. > > */ > > #ifdef sparc > > +#ifdef __sparc64__ > > + asm ("flushw"); > > +#else > > asm ("ta 3"); > > +#endif > > #endif > > > > Now, I don't think anybody would argue that there are probably far more > > Solaris installations of sparc64 than FreeBSD ones. > > Exactly, that code has been running for all other systems just fine for > many years. Why the insistence to change without proper testing? > Why not just make the conditional > defined (__sparc64__) && defined (__FreeBSD__) ? My impression from the original Gentoo bug is that this affects Linux too, so making the code depend on __FreeBSD__ doesn't solve Ulrich's original problem.