ffcall

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Thu Feb 19 18:47:00 GMT 2015


On 2/19/2015 12:44 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Feb 19 12:19, Ken Brown wrote:
>> On 2/19/2015 11:46 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
>>> On 2/19/2015 10:43 AM, Reini Urban wrote:
>>>> On 02/19/2015 10:38 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>>> On Feb 18 17:41, Ken Brown wrote:
>>>>> Help with basic x86_64 assembler is ok, I did it for Cygwin with help
>>>> >from Kai Tietz.
>>>>>
>>>>> The main difference to Linux you have to look out for is the different
>>>>> calling convention and how the registers are used:
>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_calling_conventions#Microsoft_x64_calling_convention
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> So the job is typically to rearrange the register usage and to
>>>>> account for the only four registers used for the first arguments
>>>>> to a function, rather than the 6 registers in the SYSV ABI.
>>>>>> I might give it a try at some point, but I'm not highly motivated
>>>>>> unless
>>>>>> someone who really cares about clisp steps forward to help.  I'll
>>>>>> concentrate first on seeing if I can get some 64-bit version of
>>>>>> clisp built
>>>>>> without ffcall.
>>>> Should be doable without.
>>>
>>> Yes, it seems to be.  So far I've built and am testing a version with no
>>> non-default modules, and with the default regexp module disabled.  I had
>>> to do the latter because of the gcc problem I encountered while trying
>>> to compile regexi.c:
>>>
>>>     https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=64939
>>>
>>> The same sort of error occurs with several other modules.
>>
>> I tried to test my build by using it to build xindy.  It appeared to work,
>> as far as it went, but it didn't go too far because xindy requires the
>> regexp module.  So I think I'm stuck until the gcc problem is resolved.
>
> Does it build with the former gcc 4.8.3, by any chance?

No, same error.

Ken



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