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10:29:56
karlosz
but anyway we get editcore to produce .s and .o files, then we take the runtime and link it with that
10:30:10
karlosz
we might have to fix up some differing parameters but we can also stub out missing c symbols
10:31:16
karlosz
so the only stuff to potentially fix up is differing os parameters (should be page_size basically)
10:31:44
karlosz
there's the signals related stuff too which can just be stubbed out to error - we'll modify the sbcl source code to use soft card marks and be not interactive
10:32:13
karlosz
although what kind of input do we have if not stdin? it would be good to get a repl that we can interact with somehow on the switch backed by fasteval?
10:35:54
Colleen
<shinmera> I already adjusted the groveller to use this to get the target platform constants from the NX itself.
10:38:38
karlosz
maybe i should look into getting soft card marking working first before trying to merge on top of trial nx
10:39:33
Colleen
<shinmera> Getting an automated build working will also help a lot in the long run.
10:43:04
karlosz
i expect the following two things to happen: the linker will complain about the .o file for being ELF and not NSO (hopefully that is remedied by changing the magic number if they're so similar)
10:43:29
karlosz
and then after that the NX will die because it can't relocate the heap because that entails modifying the text section (we still need to hear back from nintendo about that)
14:14:22
Colleen
<shinmera> It fuses the history into the main repo, making it easier to keep local patches and push them back upstream.
14:18:43
Colleen
<shinmera> you should be able to do something like git subtree pull --prefix sbcl sbcl master
14:22:51
Colleen
<shinmera> yes, you should be able to do something like --allow-unrelated-histories
14:24:39
Colleen
<shinmera> according to some other stackoverflows you might need to add --squash to the command instead
14:27:10
karlosz
though this might not be the best way to go about it - i can resolve the merge conflicts but that doesn't update the copied runtime files
14:29:16
karlosz
yeah, hence why i was debating to do all the upstream relevant stuff first to avoid merging like this, but we'll see how broken things are after this merge