libffi and embedded mips

Thu Aug 29 13:50:00 GMT 2002

On Thu, 2002年08月29日 at 13:41, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> Do you have suggestions on how the ifdef should look? It is pretty ugly
> now.

Not off the top of my head, no. 
> To make progress, I pushed by this by switching target CPUs and ran into
> a
> more general problem. The $(LINK) command for the libffi test does not 
> appear to go looking for newlib in the build tree. 

Yes, IIRC, you need to have newlib installed right now. We should fix
this. That used to not be the case, but I don't know when it changed.
> Which all leads me to a more general suspicion... has anyone every used
> the GNU Java libraries on an embedded target? 

Yes - most recently for me on xscale-elf (with newlib and tested on the
sim). At one point we did a lot of testing on an embedded mips target
as well (a long time ago now!).
> Looking at the configure's and target configuration files, I am not 
> finding many signs that another embedded target has ever been worked
> on. 
> If I am in uncharted territory, then I will need some help if anyone
> cares about this getting pushed into the embedded space.

Look in configure.host for some hints.
AG