Re: Problem with sableVM on AIX Platforms

On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 10:45:41PM -0500, Peter Lovell wrote:
> Hello David,
> I have been able to build and run sabvlevm+classpath quite 
> successfully(*) on Mac OS X, using PowerPC CPU. It may be that there 
> are  differences between PowerPC and POWER(AIX) instruction sets but I 
> think (hope) those would be relatively minor. But perhaps not.
> 
> When you have the opportunity, can you point me to the specific bug 
> about assembly code?
> 

Hi,

This is the bug in question:
http://sablevm.org/bugs/80

I think however that the bug is AIX-specific.  SableVM works #1 on
Linux/PowerPC also :)

>  * there's one minor patch required related to definition of socklen_t, 
> which was mentioned on the list recently and for which I'm working on a 
> patch.
> 

ok, thanks just send it when it will be ready.

Concerning the OS X port, note that I was not able to get the signal-based
exceptions working on OS X, in case you or someone else is interested.
Could be difficult to find what goes wrong though.

David

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