Re: 64-bit Help

2016-05-23 Thread Gage Morgan
Picking my poison here, looks like I'm going to go with Flavio Cruz. I am interested in that specific part of the HURD, as well as with translators. How many people work on this at once? I mean the overall project. I was disappointed when I heard RMS backed/wussed out of his own project on this

Re: 64-bit Help

2016-05-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Gage Morgan, on Mon 23 May 2016 12:30:40 +, wrote: > I'm looking to help compile for 64-bit processors > I'm writing in to see what the first objective would be for me to commit to. > I > am not hostile, so do not pull out your flamethrowers just yet. :-) The kernel part already has

Re: [PATCH] Introduce gsync-based locks to glibc.

2016-05-23 Thread Agustina Arzille
Here's the updated glibc patch, and the patches for mutexes and rwlocks. The initial patch for libpthread as published in: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2016-05/msg00027.html remains the same. * hurd/hurdlock.h: New file. * hurd/hurdlock.c: New file. * hurd/Makefile: Add hurdlock

Re: [PATCH] Introduce gsync-based locks to glibc.

2016-05-23 Thread Agustina Arzille
On 05/22/2016 03:47 AM, Kalle Olavi Niemitalo wrote: GPLv3-based licenses may be OK for tests (libio/tst-fwrite-error.c) but I think not for code that gets loaded from glibc to application processes, unless a license exception applies (intl/plural.c). There seems to be a similar problem with in

64-bit Help

2016-05-23 Thread Gage Morgan
Hello, everyone: I'm looking to help compile for 64-bit processors (seeing as this is a ragtag group that is looked at elsewhere as a joke) because I think the idea of this translators is interesting and shows just how customizable this system really could be.  I'm writing in to see what the fir

Re: [PATCH] fix compiler warnings in hurd/exec

2016-05-23 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 18:10:27 +0100, Flavio Cruz wrote: > exec: Fix compiler warnings. > > * exec/elfcore.c: Cast arguments to vm_address_t. > * exec/main.c: Use %lu in asprintf. > --- a/exec/elfcore.c > +++ b/exec/elfcore.c > @@ -408,8 +408,8 @@ dump_core (task_t task, file_t file, off_t co

Re: [PATCH] fix compiler warnings in hurd/procfs

2016-05-23 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 23:11:26 +0100, Flavio Cruz wrote: > procfs: Fix compiler warnings. > > * include/sys/procfs.h: Change uintptr_t to vm_address_t. > * procfs/process.c: Fix format strings. > * procfs/rootdir.c: Add missing casts. (Note that the header file does not relate to the procfs