Re: gEDA-user: Icarus Verilog vvp32 on 64bit systems

[Stephen Williams <steve@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Günter Dannoritzer wrote:
> Stephen Williams wrote:
>> Question:
>>
>> Does *anybody* use or even see value in the 32bit runtime support
>> that Icarus Verilog includes in 64bit builds? In particular, there
>> is support in the Icarus Verilog source for building simultaneously
>> a vvp (64bit) and a vvp32 (32bit) to support 32bit VPI's transported
>> from 32bit systems.

> 
> I am not using vvp32, but I am also not a heavy user of the PLI.
> 
> However, I did try to build openSUSE RPM's from the latest development
> snapshot and ran into problems related to vvp32, I did not have before.
> 
> For openSUSE 10.2 x86_64 the build failed with some vvp32 errors. I
> haven't taken the time yet to look at them closer.

Looks like yet another reason to drop the vvp32 support. So far
I have a handful of reasons to drop it, and no reasons to keep it.
It's starting to look like a rout.

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