Squeak 2.9 on ARM with optimizations
Kevin Fisher
kgf at golden.net
Wed Jan 3 02:08:50 UTC 2001
> Kevin Fisher <kgf at golden.net> is widely believed to have written:
>
> > Just a quick follow-up to the earlier discussion about compiling Squeak on ARM
> > with optimizations....
> >
> > I went back and rebuilt the VM, omitting optimizations for the module that
> > causes the problems with GCC-ARM (SoundCodecPlugin.c). When I try to start an
> > image with the resulting VM however, I get an illegal instruction and it dies.
> This is exactly the sort of thing I get on my NetWinder with their
> latest (at least, latest as of last May or so) linux release. Crai
> seemed to be able to get a working VM on his NW though, but we haven't
> had any time to do a comparison between the machines to see what the
> problem might be. I used to be able to make working Squeaks before
> upgrading to that latest release!
Actually, it was on the Netwinder site that I found the erratum about GCC
being broken for certain optimizations. They claim it's purely a GCC on ARM
thing...
What versions of GCC are being used between the two Netwinders, I wonder?
The build farm on handhelds.org is some sort of odd crossbreed between Redhat
and Debian..I don't believe it's running on Netwinders, but some sort of
internal Compaq development platform.
>
> I heard a mention that the NW VM can run on linux'd iPaqs; so you might
> try
> http://netjam.org/self/projects/smalltalk/executables/squeak-2-9-a-netwi
> nder.zip just maybe?
>
> tim
> PS If you have any knowledge of driving gdb (indeed if it works on iPaq)
> see if you can work out where the problem happened. I'm reasonably sure
> it is something to do with floating point emulation.
Hmm...well, I think gdb used to be on my iPaq but I had to blow it away to
make space for Squeak. I might be able to get it back on, however...debugging
should be quite easy since there is a shell login hanging off the iPaq serial
port. :)
I'll see what I can do..right now I'm trying to get OSProcess working with my
shrunken image so I can completely do away with the window manager on the
iPaq...that way I can call /sbin/shutdown and whatever else (the irda stuff?)
right from Squeak. It would be nice be able to do away with X as well, but
one step at a time... ;)
>
>
> --
> Tim Rowledge, tim at sumeru.stanford.edu, http://sumeru.stanford.edu/tim
> Use free-form input where possible.
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