Bootstrapping 3

Running tests on patched stage2 build of GHC 6.10.1 on sparky. Most seem to be going through, but have:

cc004.hs:16:0:
    calling convention not supported on this architecture: stdcall
    When checking declaration:
        foreign import stdcall safe "static  &p" m_stdcall
          :: StablePtr a -> IO (StablePtr b)

Started teasing out the SPARC stuff from nativeGen/MachCodeGen.hs. At the moment it's a mess of #ifdefery. I'm sure #ifdefs were the best way to do it back then there were only one or two targets, but now there is code for i386, i386_64, powerpc, alpha and sparc all mixed in together.

My plan is to copy out the non-architecture-specific functions from nativeGen/MachCodeGen.hs into their own module nativeGen/MachCodeGenShared.hs. I'll split the sparc specific stuff into a set of modules under nativeGen/sparc. Once the sparc native gen works again I'll then go back and delete the sparc specific stuff from nativeGen/MachCodeGen.hs, and make it use the MachCodeGenShared.hs. This should leave the original support for all architectures untouched during development.

While going through the code, found an amusing comment in the sparc section:

-- Floating point assignment to a register/temporary
-- ToDo: Verify correctness 
assignReg_FltCode :: Size -> CmmReg  -> CmmExpr -> NatM InstrBlock
assignReg_FltCode pk reg src = do ...

hmmm. I wonder how long that ToDo has been there..

The build of GCC 4.3.2 died with

Configuring stage 1 in sparc-sun-solaris2.10/libgcc
...
checking for suffix of object files... configure: error: cannot compute
suffix of object files: cannot compile.

Investagation of the config.log reveals:

/home/benl/files/gcc/build/gcc-4.3.2-obj/./gcc/xgcc ...
conftest.c:1: internal compiler error: Segmentation Fault
Please submit a full bug report,

Tried to back off to GCC 4.2.1 then GCC 4.2.4. Both die during the build with configure problems:

config.status: executing gstdint.h commands
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/benl/files/gcc/build/gcc-4.2.4-obj/libdecnumber'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/benl/files/gcc/build/gcc-4.2.4-obj/libdecnumber'
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/benl/files/gcc/build/gcc-4.2.4-obj/gcc'
make[3]: *** No rule to make target `all'.  Stop.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/benl/files/gcc/build/gcc-4.2.4-obj/gcc'

For some reason the configure script isn't dropping the Makefile in ./gcc.

Giving up trying to compile a more recent GCC under Solaris. Will just copy the 4.2.1 binaries across from mavericks. Let's hope we don't stumble across any more bugs in it.

Stop. Rewind. I've been tripping over myself because the builds are taking so long. I've got copies of the head on mavericks, code.haskell.org and sparky and they're all different versions. Some of the recent patches pushed to the head also seem to have broken the build, so I'm backing up to the head as of 2009/01/01.

I'm going to stick with this version, and the same compiler flags, for all builds until the NGC is fixed. I need to be able to reuse the .o files between builds because they take too long to remake.

Finally pushed the gc_thread patch. This should fix the via-c build. I've run through the testsuite, though I'm still waiting the actual stage2 build to finish - it's stuck on Parser.hs again.

Turned on the NCG for sparc. That'll be another nights worth of rebuilding.