Dwarf Exception Handling now on FreeBSD!

Brad Roberts via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Feb 4 01:43:30 PST 2016


On 2/4/2016 1:27 AM, Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 2016-02-03 21:18, Brad Roberts via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>
>> I haven't put much time into investigation, but the last time I tried
>> it, neither 9 nor 10 passed the test suite.  If someone puts in the
>> effort to get either or both of those working, I'd be happy to upgrade
>> some of the freebsd testers to newer versions.  There's currently 4
>> freebsd machines, so plenty of room to have a mix of versions.  Not
>> enough to test every combination of version and bitness, but enough to
>> allow randomness to expose issues.
>
> Perhaps it's worth taking a look at Docker. As far as I understand
> there's experimental support for FreeBSD [1]. It uses ZFS, jail and the
> 64bit Linux compatibility layer. Seems to be possible to run both Linux
> and FreeBSD images in Docker for FreeBSD.
>
> Although I'm not sure if it's possible to mix 32bit and 64bit with Docker.
>
> [1] https://wiki.freebsd.org/Docker

It's not about mechanism, it's about compute hours in the day.  Yes, 
making each machine a little more flexible would be useful for leveling 
out the progress across platforms, but there just isn't enough hardware 
in my fleet for adding a bunch more configurations to the matrix.


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