[kaffe] Unable to run Kaffe 1.1.7 on PowerPC

[Jesper Larsen]

Dalibor Topic wrote:

>On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 16:05 +0200, Jesper Larsen wrote:
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> The jitter is not finished yet on ppc, so you should chose the
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>--with-engine=intrp option in configure. Of course, help with the jitter
>would be great, too ;)
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Ahh, that's why. With --with-engine=intrp it runs well. Thank you very much.

How large slowdown should I expect when running with intrp instead of jit?

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>>Any ideas how to solve this problem?
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>If you want to work on the jit on uClibc, you'd have to define the
>symbol and use it as PIC in the assembler code in the trampolines
>sources. I guess you could compile a C test program with PIC and see
>what the assembler code looks like in that case and work from there.
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I'd like to help, but I don't know very much about "trampolines", 
assembler etc.
Any hints to information sources?


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Kind regards

Jesper Larsen