Fuxin Zhang wrote: > Maciej W. Rozycki ??????: >> On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Fuxin Zhang wrote: >> >> >>> It is available at >>> http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=81482, any comments are >>> welcome. >>> Have an official openoffice for linux/mips might be a good thing. A quick glance revealed already several bugs. (alignment issues, ULH for laoding signed shorts, etc.) >> Hmm, why would anyone need to have asm snippets in a document processing >> suite? And it looks like the bits are ABI-dependent, so at least three >> variations (if the changes are endianness-safe) would be required to >> handle all the ABIs that we support. >> > Openoffice wants to be able to interact with plugins written in many > languages, instead of writting a module for each possible combination it > chooses the so called bridge: every language interact with a common middle > language. So we have now foreign function interfaces for at least OpenOffice, Mozilla, Clisp and GCC's libffi. libffi recently got support for N32/N64 ABIs, and is the only solution which isn't bound to a specific application (as long as GCC is used). Using libffi from Openoffice looks like the best long-term approach to me. Thiemo
