Comment 9 for bug 6883

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Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:41:46 +1000
From: "Jim Watson" <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden> (Thomas Bogendoerfer)
Cc: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#256347: openoffice.org-bin: sparc32plus shared library but no
 normal sparc file

I prefer the two versions of libsal, i will see if someone can help find the
switch, which is described in the comments in interlck_sparc.s.
I think we need this anyway, since it will not build the v8 version as it is
expecting v9

On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 10:59:48 +0200, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote
> machines refuses to load. Right now I can think of two ways to
> solve that:
>
> 1. Just dump the V9 implementation and always use the V8 implemenation.
> This does probably cause some performance loss on V9 sparc.
>
> 2. Split the assembler file into V8 and V9 implemenation and build
> two libsal shared libs. There is support in ld.so to load the correct
> library
>
> The first solution still leaves out Sparc V7 systems in the rain.
> With the second solution it would be even possible to provide a V7
> library, if someone figures out how to do it there (I'm not a sparc assembler
> crack).
>
> Thomas.