Le 17 juin 05 à 08:50, Richard Drummond a écrit :
Hi Francis
On Tuesday 14 June 2005 05:11 pm, francis klein wrote:
I have tested the newbsdsocket_emu with Thor (the newsreader).
On the G5 (Panther) I get a few posts and the Amiga hang, the pointer freeze, but the Emulation don't crash, i have to reboot (F11+R)
I have tried with the 20050607 build just in case. i have recuperated 1000+ posts without a problem.
I have retried with the 20050614, same thing as the first time, hang & freeze.
But, I have failed to reproduce the problem with the G4 (Tiger). Thor seem to be working fine with the newbsdsocket.
Tomorrow i try to switch the configurations between the two computers, just to be sure. Maybe your are right for the stack magic stuff problems on the G5.
Hope to make sens with my poor english. sorry for that.
Okay. To summarize what you've written and to check that I understand you:
The 'new' bsdsocket emulation (in 20050614) works okay on your G4/ Tiger
system, but doesn't on your G5/Panther system?
Your choice. A possibility to compile euae with the 'old' bsdsocket emulation is necessary for now.
I would guess that the stack-twiddling that the 'new' bsdsocket code does
would be a problem on the G5, because, as far as I undersand it (and I'm
fairly sure I do), the PowerPC architecture doesn't have 32-bit and 64-bit
modes like, for instance, the AMD64 has. You can run 32-bit binaries
transparently on a 64-bit chip - the problem is, as far as the stack magic
code is concerned, a 64-bit PPC chip still uses 64-bit stack frames when
running 32-bit code. So I don't think I can fix this at the moment, short of
creating a 64-bit E-UAE executable (which I'm not even sure that I can do,
since I'm still running 10.2 here).
Possible solutions:
1) Provide a binary which uses the 'old' bsdsocket emulation.
2) Provide a PPC64 binary with a fixed 'new' bsdsocket emulation for G5 users.
3) Find another solution for getting the 'new' bsdsocket emulation which
doesn't perform voodoo on the stack.
You can probably see why I think the stack-magic stuff is evil. ;-)
Anybody else got any bright ideas?
Cheers, Rich
