[fpc-devel] MIPS

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>> Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>>> Felipe and Michael have pointed out to me that David Zhang's mipsel 
>>> port has been integrated into trunk.
>>>
>>> Before I start trying to build it, could anybody comment on how 
>>> complete an implementation it is?
>>>
>>> Apart from that I can confirm that David's code on Sourceforge is 
>>> good enough for trivial programs that run on a recent Linux hosted by 
>>> Qemu.
> 
> Current situation is that after ensuring the existence of dummy files 
> I've stepped back from the RTL code and am looking at a problem that 
> appears to be caused by floating point initialisation in the cross 
> compiler.

A define incorrectly suggested that MIPS was using MM registers. Now 
back following missing files/symlinks in the RTL.

http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Native_MIPS_Systems#Stall_point

I hope to have an SGI machine in a few days, provided that it works 
(it's been stored in a garage) I might be able to look at mips as well 
as mipsel.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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