Thiemo Seufer wrote:
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.
I assume you mean 'Using libffi in...'. I would tend to agree, but I am
a bit biased toward libffi.
FWIW, GCC's libffi gets full n32/n64 support in version 4.3 (which has
not been released yet) The libffi part seems quite stable though, so
you could start experimenting with it now I suppose...
David Daney
