Kaffe on Solaris with SunC compiler.

[Tim Wilkinson]

Gilles,

On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Gilles Dauphin wrote:

> I am young to Kaffe mailing list. So, I try to compile Kaffe 0.8.2
> with Sun C 4.0 on Solaris 2.5 SS5 computer and it does not compile.
> Here is the probleme:
> 
> The problem is in config/sparc/jit.h line 33:
> 
> #define CALL_KAFFE_FUNCTION(meth, obj)                                  \
>         asm("   mov %0,%%o0                                             \n\
>                 call %1,0                                               \n\
>                 nop                                                     \n\
>         " : : "r" (obj), "r" (meth->ncode))
> 
> What is the mean of ' : : ' in the asm directive?
> Is special to GNU asm?
> What is the equivalent asm directive for SunC compiler?
> I have also a problem with the 'asm volatile' directive.

Yes this is all special GNU machine, and I have not idea what the CC
equivalent is.  If you decide to work it out please let me know.

> An other problem is in kaffe/kaffevm/jit/constpool.c line 101:
> void
> establishConstants(void *at)
> {
>         constpool *c;
> 
>         for (c = firstConst; c != currConst; c = c->next) {
>                 c->at = (uintp)at;
>                 *(union _constpoolval*)at = c->val;
>                 at += sizeof(c->val);   <----- problem here ('at' is void*)
>         }
> 
>         currConst = firstConst;
>         nConst = 0;
> }

I've sorter this one out so it'll compile on non-GNU compilers.

Thanks
Tim

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