Re: Strongtalk from scratch

I had started to port the various .asm files -- the assembly is not the
problem, I am well versed in assembly -- the problem is not having an
equivalent to a macro assembler (such as Turbo Assembler or MASM) on Linux
... :( -- I have starting looking into how the existing assembly files are
used towards the ends you have suggested; but have not made much progress in
that space (specifically determining how they are used for the 'hotspot'
approach).

I do agree we should use the VM where possible ...

-- dave


On 4/11/07, prunedtree <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> Did you port it already ? if you haven't, i can help you remove all
> dependencies on inline/external assembly.
> After all we have a macro assembler in the VM, so we should use it
> (that's what hotspot does too btw)
>
> I'll start by getting rid of the COFF files for the win32 build. As i
> said before, it's something fun to do.
>
> prunedtree
>
> On Apr 11, 3:48 pm, "Dave Raymer" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > As I understand it, the situation is this:
> >
> > Images cannot yet be built from scratch.  Apparently there is still some
> > voodoo in this space that Dave Griswold is working on.
> >
> > "Trunk Build VM " -- can be built from scratch only if you have a copy
> of
> > Turbo Assembler from Borland, otherwise you need M$ Visual Studio, and
> you
> > use the pre-provided COFF obj files
> >
> > There is a patch in the mailing archive that enables you to build the VM
> > with MinGW under Windows, again using the COFF obj files provided by
> Thiago
> >
> > I am working on a "pure" linux port of the VM and having much fun with
> the
> > assembler which someone else noted should be trivial to port -- I bow to
> his
> > skills if to him, this is trivial.
> >
> > regards,
> >    the other Dave.
> >
> > On 4/10/07, SmallSqueak <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > >        > > Does anyone know the status of "building strongtalk from
> > > scratch" ?
> >
> > >        > What do you mean by "building smalltalk from scratch"?
> > >        > Are you talking about building an image or the VM or both?
> >
> > >        > regards,
> > >        >   the other Dave
> >
> > >        That should be both the VM and the image.
> >
> > >        The VM can already be built from scratch, can't it.
> >
> > >        Cheers,
> >
> > >        SmallSqueak
> >
> > --
> > A man's greatest treasure is his wife, she is a gift from the Lord
> > - Proverbs 18:22
>
>
> >
>


-- 
A man's greatest treasure is his wife, she is a gift from the Lord
- Proverbs 18:22

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