Messages in this thread | | | From | "Nancy Lewis" <> | Subject | Re: Linux on Merced | Date | Tue, 04 Nov 1997 04:46:03 PST |
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I have been following this discussion for a while, and its quite interesting. I had a conversation with an HP engineer the other day that you all might find interesting. We were talking about assembly language programming, and he told me that it was effectively impossible for people to write assembler for Merced. Apparently the compiler is responsible for keeping track of a lot of the CPU state information, and its a very complex process. A lot of the work HP has done on Merced has been to make their compilers good enough so that there is no need to write in assembler.
What I assume this means for Linux is that the challenging part of the port will be getting gcc to work well. After that there should not be too much of the kernel that you would want to try to write in assembler. I am sure someone will try though :-)
Hope you find this interesting,
Nancy
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