Re: configure.in support for FreeBSD ia64/sparc64/powerpc

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Fri, 19 Dec 2008, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

>>> Was this tested on GNU/Linux
>> 
>> Yes.
>> 
>>> and Solaris (and all other sparc64 platforms)?
>> 
>> No.
>> 
>>> Otherwise better make that #ifdef depend on FreeBSD.
>> 
>> I've nothing against that.
>> 
>> --- emacs-orig/src/alloc.c
>> +++ emacs/src/alloc.c
>> @@ -4573,7 +4573,11 @@
>>       needed on ia64 too.  See mach_dep.c, where it also says inline
>>       assembler doesn't work with relevant proprietary compilers.  */
>>  #ifdef __sparc__
>> +#if defined (__sparc64__) && defined(__FreeBSD__)
>> +  asm ("flushw");
>> +#else
>>    asm ("ta 3");
>> +#endif
>>  #endif
>>  
>>    /* Save registers that we need to see on the stack.  We need to see

> No objection from me either.   Adding __FreeBSD__ seems fine.

So, another month has passed ... any reason why this patch cannot be
applied? Otherwise, it would be nice if someone could commit it before
pretest starts.

Ulrich