[webkit-dev] SQE PPC Support

[Gavin Barraclough]

On Sep 23, 2008, at 9:10 AM, Darin Adler wrote:
> On Sep 23, 2008, at 9:04 AM, Jon Shier wrote:
>
>> First, am I correct in thinking that some refactoring needs to be
>> done before other architectures can be supported?
>
> We plan to do the refactoring as we add new architectures. The best
> person to talk to about that is Gavin Barraclough. The next
> architecture on the roadmap is X86-64.

Jon, Mario,

As Darin says, we plan to look at x86-64 in the very near future.

We see this as a good gateway to further architectures (as well as  
being an important architecture in its own right for SFX to support).   
It will force us to address a number of issues that many ports may  
face (pointers being larger than the size of immediate operands,  
setting memory protection on code buffers spring to mind) – whilst  
clearly having a lot in common with the existing x86 code generation.   
It should also see us start to introduce a layer of abstraction  
between the compiler and the architecture specific assembler.

cheers,
G.