Portability

[James E Keenan]

Stephen Weeks wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 21:17 +0100, Philip Herron wrote:
>> Hey guys,
>>
>> Since my last thread, i am quite interested in parrot now, i've been
>> playing with it a little i've stopped my gcc work to concentrate on
>> this and my programming language. But taking a peek around not sure
>> where to get invlovled i mean i've been looking at some bug fixes but
>> i am not sure where i would be more usefull. I hold access to the gnu
>> compile farm and wondering do you do much testing on more random
>> architecures like alpha or mips or sparc? Maybe thats were i could be
>> usefull. But if you have work in garbage collection or misc internals;
>> or i saw someone working on an LLVM backend sounds pretty cool. Any
>> suggestions would be great.
>>
>> --Phil
> 
> Welcome to the project, Phil!
> 
> Smoke reports from less-common architectures would be very nice.  The
> main problem there is availability of developers with access to those
> architectures with knowledge and interest in fixing problems on those
> architectures.  It would certainly be useful to have, though.

I would like to second what tene said about smoke reports from less 
common architectures.  They are valuable -- and they're even more 
valuable if the submitter can work on those boxes where debugging test 
failures is needed.

kid51