[kaffe] Support for jit3 on arm/netbsd

[Jim Pick]

Excellent!

I think this is the first commit in 5 months since Dalibor did the last 
release.  I notice that the CVS email script seems to be broken -- and I 
still need to fix Bugzilla.

When I get some time, I'll try to setup gxemul so I can try it out!

Cheers,

  - Jim


Kiyo Inaba wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Yesterday, I've committed 'partial port' of kaffe to arm/netbsd/jit3.
> This port is different from arm/linux port, because NetBSD port does
> not use (1) any floating point instructions. The current linux port
> uses slightly old FPA instructions (with hardware support or software
> emulation resides in the OS), even though there are very few arm
> hardwares shipped with real FPAs (2).
> 
> The reasons I said this as a 'partial port' are
>      1) I just make float support, and not double. This is OK to
> 	execute the most basic 'HelloWorldApp.java' test in kaffe's
> 	regression, but of course double related tests all fail.
>      2) Since the latest snap needs extra libraries and installing
> 	all of them take long time (3), I just use relatively old snap
> 	(precisely speaking, 2007/05/10 version) as a base for this
> 	modification.
>      3) I did not ifdef'ed all unneeded functions in 'jit3-arm.def'.
> 	For example, the function 'fmove_RxR' is not needed when
> 	'HAVE_NO_FLOATING_POINT' macro is defined.
>      4) I still set _GR_ (4) as 0 in 'jit.h' file for arm :-<
> 
> Currently only two functions (fspill_Rxx and freload_Rxx) which handle
> float values (5) are activated.
> 
> I tested this modifications on 'gxemul' emulator available from
> http://gavare.se/gxemul/ with NetBSD 4.0 for cats and more than
> 100 regression tests in kaffe can be passed.
> 
> I may continue improving this port (6) in some day, but my 'summer of
> code' season is over, and may take long time...
> 
> Kiyo
> 1) As usual, NetBSD does things right, linux does things #####. (Fill
>    in the sharps with your favorite term, please)
> 2) You can read some story for arm's history of flaoting point support
>    hardware in http://wiki.debian.org/ArmEabiPort. And you may find why
>    kaffe still has '__XSCALE__' define in several places. (In Xscale
>    processor the FPA instruction overlaps with their own extension, and
>    the linux port on Xscale should be compiled with soft-float)
> 3) Especially, atomic support. To install 'glib', I first install several
>    other gtk libraries...
> 4) The _GR_ macro is used to set properties of arm's registers. Since
>    I set _GR_ to 0, which means (in jit3) there are no global registers
>    available right now. Of course, this is a major reason why jit3 is
>    slower than jit in arm port.
> 5) Of course there are no floating point registers (even in emulation)
>    on arm/NetBSD, the emitted code by these functions are changed
>    (ifdef'ed). I select to modify these two functions but the other
>    idea is to keep these two functions same, but change the property of
>    values from 'float' to 'int' (and 'double' to 'long') when register
>    allocation is invoked. The latter may make my modifications to be
>    architecture independent.
> 6) As some may remember, ARM is not my favorite architecture. I attack
>    this port because I want to make m68k (well, Coldfire, these days?)
>    or SuperH work for jit3 without FPU. So these may have higher
>    priorities than fixing arm port.
> 
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