Hoover, Tony (hoover@sal.ksu.edu)
Thu, 15 Apr 1999 09:54:24 -0500
>From what I've heard, RISC machine code and Alpha in particular is best left
to the compiler. If you can understand what the piece of X86 asm is doing,
and then re-write it in C/C++ things should work out for the best.
Tony
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Tony Hoover, Network Administrator
KSU - Salina, College of Technology
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"I'm on a head long collision course with the brick wall of success"
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> From: greg meno[SMTP:capt_n_emo@hotmail.com]
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> Subject: Re: Mozilla & the Alpha
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> thanks for te pointer
> does anyone else feeling like taking a shot with me ?
> i'd like to know if anyone else is working on such a task
> i personally have no alpha asm under my belt but have quite a bit of
> c/c++ and a small ammount of x86 asm and seeeing that so much of the
> code is in place as exaples damn NPL
>
> it can't be that hard
> -GReg
> >
> >For pointers on how to do such a thing, see
> >
> > ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/home/green/libffi-1.20.tar.gz
> >
> >Anthony's foreign function interface library does exactly what
> >they want. Except that it's GPL, which is incompatible with
> >the NPL, so they can't use it.
> >
> >But you may well be able to take the ideas intact.
> >
> >
> >r~
> >
>
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