Hello, I have uploaded bugfix releases of glibc and binutils packages, fixing thread safety problems in strstr() and strrchr() in the former and text section detection in the latter. I have uploaded a couple of other packages for cross-compilation too (I don't expect to make special announcements of these in the future, so please check the site from time to time if interested). Package availability: ftp://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/linux/mips/people/macro/SRPMS/ vax-linux-binutils-2.20-2.src.rpm vax-linux-flex-2.5.31-4.src.rpm vax-linux-glibc-2.4-14.src.rpm vax-linux-pam-0.79-5.src.rpm ftp://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/linux/mips/people/macro/RPMS/ i386/vax-linux-binutils-2.20-2.i386.rpm noarch/vax-linux-flex-devel-2.5.31-4.noarch.rpm noarch/vax-linux-glibc-debug-2.4-14.noarch.rpm noarch/vax-linux-glibc-devel-2.4-14.noarch.rpm noarch/vax-linux-glibc-profile-2.4-14.noarch.rpm noarch/vax-linux-glibc-static-2.4-14.noarch.rpm noarch/vax-linux-pam-devel-0.79-5.noarch.rpm noarch/vax-linux-pam-static-0.79-5.noarch.rpm I have made progress on the GCC front -- the following components have been ported: GNAT (the Ada-95 compiler), FFI (the Foreign Function Interface library) and Boehm-GC (the Boehm Garbage Collector component). I'm currently working on the Java Classpath library; unfortunately, due to the difference between the floating-point format supported by VAX hardware and the IEEE-754 floating-point standard implied by Java, the library is going to be non-standard. I'm currently investigating whether it's reasonably feasible to correctly support IEEE-754 floating-point literals in Java bytecode interpreted by GIJ running on VAX (as long as they fall within the range supported by hardware) and only emit floating-point literals in the native format for native binaries. Any suggestions are welcome. Happy New Year, everyone! Maciej _______________________________________________ Linux-Vax mailing list Linux-Vax@mail.pergamentum.com http://mail.pergamentum.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-vax