Re: difference between armv3l and armv4l, ...

[Sven LUTHER <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 10:43:26AM +0000, Philip Blundell wrote:
> >we need to make sure that the native code compiler don't make use of these
> >extra instructions though. from a quick glance at ocaml-3.01/asmrun/arm.S, i
> >don't think that is so, after all this file is pretty short, but then i know
> >nothing about arm assembly. Could you please look at it (it is 338 lines only)
> >and check that no armv4l instructions are used ?
> 
> Will do.  But, looking at the build daemon logs, ocaml 3.01-4 won't build even 
> on armv4l:
> 
> ../../../boot/ocamlrun ../../../ocamlopt -I ../../../stdlib -labels -c -I ../support tk.ml
> /tmp/camlasm2.s: Assembler messages:
> /tmp/camlasm2.s:26142: Error: Invalid constant
> /tmp/camlasm2.s:30129: Error: Invalid constant
> Assembler error, input left in file /tmp/camlasm2.s
> make[3]: *** [tk.cmx] Error 2

Well, i should rebuilt the package on medusa, it bombed at the end, because of
the missing emacsen dependency, but the rest of the built went ok.

Now, that was with armv3l, not with arm4vl. Could someone please build the
package on an armv4l box so that i may close the bug ?

Friendly,

Sven Luther