Re: ia64-hp-hpux11.31

[Paul Ackersviller <pda at sdf dot org>]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 08:51:12AM -0400, Anthony Green wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 12:50 AM, Paul Ackersviller <pda@sdf.org> wrote:
> > I see from the web page that libffi runs on this hardware, albeit not with
> > this OS listed. ?Although some versions of gcc seem to compile libffi fine,
> > I'm interested in using HP's compiler. ?I get the errors below, the main
> > problem being the assembly code. ?I'm unsure how to decipher the compiler's
> > error message, and haven't located any docs to help.
> >
> > "src/ia64/ffi.c", line 115: error #4254: "asm" is not supported; use format _Asm_xxx instead
> >
> > Anyone out there have a clue?
> 
> Sorry, Paul.   I don't have a clue.   This looks like real porting work.

I don't think so, as I said the assembler that's there already gets
inlined fine into gcc.  I can send you test results if someone want to
add HP-UX on ia64 to the web page.  The trick with HP's compiler should
be just to figure out the syntax for integrating the assembler into C.