Re: [Dotgnu-libjit] _jit_regs_set_value

[Aleksey Demakov]

Hi Michele,

On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 1:41 AM, MikyT <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'm an Italian developer and I'm starting to work on the ARM backend of 
> libjit.
> Looking at the "Porting libjit to new architectures" guide, I've
> enabled the ARM backend and, as expected, it cannot be compiled.
>

The doc is a bit outdated, so at the moment the best way to port
to a new architecture is to look at the x86 and x86-64 ports as
example and to ask people on the #DotGNU IRC channel.

> It complains about an undefined function called "_jit_regs_set_value".
> That function is used many times in jit-rules-arm.slc, that is
> generated from jit-rules-arm.sel by the gen-sel tool, as defined by
> gen-sel-parser.y.
> That function is completely non-existent and undocumented, so
> implementing it is quite a problem!
>

The .slc file is generated from the .sel file. However both these files
are obsolete, you will need to write an .ins file instead of the .sel
one.

Regards,
Aleksey