Re: Changing the word-size was: Re: eat your own dog food?

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

Em Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 01:08:41PM -0500, jamal escreveu:
> On Sat, 2008-12-01 at 15:28 -0200, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> 
> > Now what seems to be the last thing to do is to follow typedefs and find
> > unnamed structs, think about spinlock_t, socket_lock_t, etc.
> > 
> 
> Good stuff Arnaldo - updated local tree. 
> I should be able to test later today.
> 
> Dont know much about cmake, is it possible to check for elfutils version
> and not depend on build_id if version < xxx?
> This way i dont have to go out of my way to maintain my own versions of
> elf utilities. I have to do the patch you sent earlier manually now. I
> will remove it if you will fix cmake.

As I said in the cset commit, I'm no cmake/autoconf guy, but I'll check
that, after all this is a prime area where these otherwise distracting
things should help.
 
> BTW, while perusing archs i managed i think to gather sufficiently
> accurate info (;->) on the different alignments; i got lazy at the end,
> but quiet a few are in the attached txt file incase you find them
> useful. Double check sparc for example. I think most 64-bit hardware
> looks consistent; the funnies are in 32-bit archs.

I'll check that, thanks for the research, that may well be the starting
point for arch descriptions, that if libebl from elfutils doesn't
already provide that to us, something I haven't checked.

- Arnaldo
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