On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 02:02:36PM +0100, Kaare Hviid wrote: > Actually, I also thought it was strange that XView was supported on the > alpha but no other 64-bit architecture, and had a brief look at it some > time ago. However, it seemed to be more than just plain 64-bit issues,
At least for IA64, the killer for XView is a 64bit issue. #125391 has all the gory details. But I doubt that AMD64's ABI is braindamaged in the same way, so the crash there is probably caused by a different problem. > but also how messages were passed around in the system. The alpha port > has some quite elaborate patches which are way beyond me, and yes - I > can confirm that for instance "cmdtool" *do* work on my lowly alpha That's also how I remember it - I tried XView years ago on a few Alphas running OSF/1 and it seemed to work fine there. > I'd say that getting XView to run on amd64 amounts to more than just > a few trivial fixes. I might be wrong though, and perhaps aj's patches > in #294844 works. That just adds a few missing static keywords, so it's unlikely to fix more than a few warnings (which seemingly turned to errors with gcc 4.0). If somebody is really intrested in XView for AMD64, I'd recommend to grep for #ifdef __alpha and add __amd64 there as a starting point. Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
