Support for SPARC64

[Richard-Rogalski]

Hello!!

Sorry, I have not had the opportunity to look through your codebase to see how trivial adding a CPU target is. However, it looks like it is all rust, which is a good start :D

So, I'm wondering:

Would you be open to this project having support for sparc64? and:
How difficult is it to add new targets?

I do not have any experience in rust, but I could do my best to take a crack at it :). Also, I would be more than willing to lend you SSH access to my sparc, if you wanted to take a crack at it yourself.

I appreciate your time :)

[Amanieu]

Unfortunately adding a new target is quite complicated, see the AArch64 port for an example.

Also this crate heavily relies on Rust inline assembly, which is currently not supported on SPARC. The first step would be to add inline assembly support for SPARC to rustc (instructions).

[Richard-Rogalski]

Thanks for the reply!!

Well, bummed out that adding a new target is complicated :. But, adding inline assembly support seems (relatively!) easy, I'll take a crack there :)

[Richard-Rogalski]

Closing this, seems nobody else wants this, and I have since moved on :)