xptcall Porting Status

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This is being maintained by John Bandhauer <jband@netscape.com>. Feel free to email me with questions or to volunteer to contribute xptcall code for any platform.

Status

Status	Platform	Contributors and ? Possible Contributors	Notes
Done	Win32	John Bandhauer <jband@netscape.com>	win32
Done	Linux x86	John Bandhauer <jband@netscape.com>	unix (could be better without inline asm overhead)
Done	FreeBSD and NetBSD x86	Christoph Toshok <toshok@hungry.com>, John Bandhauer <jband@netscape.com>	unix (same as Linux 86 code)
Done	BSD/OS x86	Bert Driehuis <bert_driehuis@nl.compuware.com>	unix (same as Linux 86 code) Bert contributed patches that *should* do the right thing for all the unixish-x86 versions of this code for GCC 2.7 or 2.8 vs. EGCS 1.1. He notes that the vtbl scheme is different. He is hoping that others will help test the changes using these two compilers on the various platforms where this same code is used. Bert's details
Done	Mac PPC	Roger Lawrence <rogerl@netscape.com>, Patrick Beard <beard@netscape.com>	mac (passing tests and checked in)
Done	Solaris Sparc	Roger Lawrence <rogerl@netscape.com>, Chris McAfee <mcafee@netscape.com>	unix This is checked in and working.
Coded	OS/2	John Fairhurst <mjf35@cam.ac.uk>	Henry Sobotka <sobotka@axess.com> wrote: This is just to let you know that John Fairhurst's port of xptcinvoke and xptcstubs for our emx+gcc and pgcc builds has been done since March 27th (based on the timestamps of the two *_emx files in my copy of md/os2). While I haven't tested it yet (just started working through build breaks that occur with ENABLE_TESTS on), knowing John, I expect he has. Don't know what the status of the port is for our VAC++ build. John?
Started	OpenVMS Alpha and VAX	Colin R. Blake <colin@theblakes.com>	Colin wrote: I am porting Mozilla to OpenVMS. I guess you can put me down as someone who will port xptcall to OpenVMS Alpha and OpenVMS VAX. Won't be for a while though since Mozilla's nowhere near building on OpenVMS yet.
HELP!	Linux ARM	? Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai>	-
Maybe?	Linux Sparc	Brandon Ehle <ehle.3@osu.edu> ? Anton Blanchard <anton@progsoc.uts.edu.au>	Brandon writes: I will do the Linux Sparc xptcall if nobody else commits to it.
HELP!	Linux PPC	? Jason Y. Sproul <jsproul@condor.fddi.wesleyan.edu> ? Sean Chitwood <darkmane@w-link.net>	Mac PPC code ought to be a very good starting point
Started	Linux Alpha	Dan Morril <morrildl@nycap.rr.com>	Dan is working on this. I get the feeling that he wouldn't mind getting some help.
HELP!	SunOS x86	? Philip Pokorny <ppokorny@mindspring.com>	-
HELP!	HP-UX	-	-
Working	AIX PPC	Jim Dunn <jdunn@netscape.com>	Jim writes: I have checked in the AIX PPC code for xptcall xpcom/reflect/xptcall/src/md/unix. I have tested it on both the AIX 4.2 & 4.3.2 and TestXPTCInvoke runs on both. I haven't verified is the 'stubs' code is working... I need a test for that... but eventually I will verify.
Coded	Irix	Jason Heirtzler <jasonh@m7.engr.sgi.com>	Jason has this working. He's dealing with some issues having to do with the lack of inline asm support with the native compiler.
Coded	BeOS x86	Duncan Wilcox <duncan@be.com>	unix (yet another reuse of the Linux 86 code!) Duncan has the invoker test working and is confident that the stubs stuff will work, but it's untested (TestXPC not yet compiling).
HELP!	BeOS PPC	-	-
HELP!	Digital Unix	-	-
Coded	Neutrio x86	Jerry L. Kirk <Jerry.Kirk@Nexwarecorp.com>	Patch contributed for xptcinvoke_unixish_x86.cpp. Will be checked in when xpcom tree is open.
Investigating	SCO UW7 and OSR5	Evan Hunt <evanh@sco.com> Cynthia Hertzer <chertzer@sco.com>	-
Coded	NetBSD/m68k	Dave Huang <khym@bga.com>	Dave has posted patches for this. I'm waiting for the xpcom tree to clear to check them in.
HELP!	All others!	-	-

Note: I've used the symbol (?) to indicate people who have expressed an interest in possibly contributing code. Just because these people are listed here does not mean that they have commited themselves to do the work. If you would like to contribute then let me know. Feel free to email these folks and offer to help or find out what's going on. We're all in this together.