Dan Morrill (morrildl@nycap.rr.com)
Tue, 13 Apr 1999 22:51:39 -0400 (EDT)
The folks over at Mozilla have introduced an asm dependency into the most recent
milestone for mozilla. This is bad since they seem to have no Alpha hackers over
there, so there is currently no Alpha asm for this project, and so there is no
mozilla for the Alpha.
The asm in question is part of the "XPConnect" code, which is the module mozilla
uses to e.g. get JavaScript to talk to the HTML renderer, let Java call
JavaScript, let JavaScript call Java, ad nauseum. What the asm has to do is
set up an arbitrary, runtime calling environment (i.e. do what the compiler
normally does at runtime, except that it must be done at runtime in this case to
allow arbitrary XPConnect objects to call other objects that may not be in the
same language.)
I, unfortunately, have no knowledge of Alpha asm other than that it exists, or
else I would do this myself. My understanding is that it's not a great quantity
of code.
Is anyone out there working on this, or is anyone out there interested in working
on it? Mozilla otherwise builds perfectly fine on Alpha/Linux, and it'd be a
shame to fall behind due to a little asm.
See:
http://www.mozilla.org/scriptable/xptcall-faq.html
http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/xpcom/libxpt/xptcall/porting.html
Dan Morrill
Computer Scientist, Physicist
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