Re: Help needed for small assembler script for the iraf package
Just to keep this thread up to date, this discussion moved to githut, where
Rogério, Gustavo and I experienced some ideas and created a proposed solution.
https://github.com/leitao/zsvjmp
On 01/04/2018 08:16 AM, Ole Streicher wrote:
> Dear powerpc specialists,
>
> I just got the "IRAF" package accepted into Debian [1]. Although the
> code is claimed to be portable, it needs a piece of assembler
> code for each platform that provides a (sort of) setjmp() to their
> Fortran variant.
>
> A "C" implementation for this looks like:
>
> #include <setjmp.h>
>
> int zsvjmp_( long *buf, long *status ) {
> *status = 0;
> ((long **)buf)[0] = status;
> return sigsetjmp ((void *)((long **)buf+1),0);
> }
>
> however this does not work, since the "sigsetjmp" call needs to be
> replaced by a jump to sigsetjmp instead.
>
> I already have some code for the ppc 32 bit (linuxppc) platform from
> august 2000 in the original distribution:
>
> -------------------------------8<-----------------------------------
> .file "zsvjmp.s"
> .section ".text"
> .align 2
> .globl zsvjmp_
> .type zsvjmp_, @function
> zsvjmp_:
> # R3 = buf, R4 = &status
> li 11,0 #
> stw 11,0(4) # *status = 0
> stw 4,0(3) # buf[0] = status
> addi 3,3,4 # &buf[1] --> 1st arg for sigsetjmp
> li 4,0 # 0 --> 2nd arg for sigsetjmp
> b __sigsetjmp@PLT
> .size zsvjmp_,.-zsvjmp_
> .section .note.GNU-stack,"",@progbits
>
> -------------------------------8<-----------------------------------
>
> The "zdojmp" counterpart is a portable C function.
>
> I created a small repository [2] that contains the assembler I collected
> so far as well as two test programs.
>
> However, I have no idea how to write the same for the 64-bit platform
> ppc64el. Maybe someone could help me here? Preferably under the IRAF
> license [3], so that it can be included upstream later.
>
> There is no direct request from the users to have this ported to
> ppc64el. However, it would be nice to have IRAF running on as much
> Debian platforms as possible; and maybe someone wants to run it on an
> IBM BlueGene or so...
>
> Big Endian systems are a different story; the current version seems to
> have some problems on such machines, so there will be no Debian package
> for those in the moment.
>
> Best regards
>
> Ole
>
> [1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/iraf
> [2] https://github.com/olebole/zsvjmp
> [3] https://github.com/iraf/iraf-v216/blob/master/local/COPYRIGHTS
>
>
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