Linux emulation status

[David O'Brien]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 11:40:48PM -0500, Owen Becker wrote:
> Anyone know what the status of running i386 linux binaries on
> FreeBSD/amd64?

Peter Wemm and I have agreed that the priority for running binaries is:
    1.  FreeBSD/i386 ELF
    2.  32-bit i386 Linux ELF
    3.  64-bit amd64 Linux ELF

of course someone may have other priorities and work on things in a
different order.


> More specifically, has anyone gotten mozilla/firebird going?

Unfortunately, the Mozilla developers have depended on having carnal
knowledge of GCC's internal C++ ABI and exception mechanism.  I don't
understand why, but this makes it rather hard to port to new
architectures.

I have some patches for Mozilla 1.4 with GCC 3.2.  I started working on
porting them, but December has become my work month from hell.  It is
important to me to get these into the Mozilla CVS tree for 1.6/0.8.
Peter mentioned there seems to be some patches in the Mozilla bugzilla
that might cover GCC 3.3.  If someone is bored and wanted to spend some
time on it...  all I ask is that if someone does port them, to post the
patches and give me a chance to Sheppard them into the Mozilla CVS tree so
things are as AMD would like them to be (naming, etc...).

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)