Bug#693633: [Vm-dev] [unix] Unrecognized opcode in FFI on PowerPC SPE

2012-11-26 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 2012-11-25, at 17:03, "David T. Lewis" wrote: > > To summarize my understanding of this issue (see below for background): > > - powerpcspe is variant of powerpc that lacks certain parts of the powerpc > instruction set, as explained here: http://wiki.debian.org/PowerPCSPEPort > > - The FFI

Bug#693633: [Vm-dev] [unix] Unrecognized opcode in FFI on PowerPC SPE

2012-11-25 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, On 25/11/12 17:03, David T. Lewis wrote: > To summarize my understanding of this issue (see below for background): > [...] > - The right way to fix the build problem in the platforms sources would be > to modify platforms/unix/plugins/SqueakFFIPrims/config.cmake to disable > the FFI plugin for

Bug#693633: [Vm-dev] [unix] Unrecognized opcode in FFI on PowerPC SPE

2012-11-25 Thread David T. Lewis
To summarize my understanding of this issue (see below for background): - powerpcspe is variant of powerpc that lacks certain parts of the powerpc instruction set, as explained here: http://wiki.debian.org/PowerPCSPEPort - The FFI plugin has architecture-specific assembler modules that set up the