Re: New Cygwin maintainer => 64bit

[Ken B. <kb...@co...>]

On 2/25/2015 3:58 PM, Don Cohen wrote:
> Ken Brown writes:
>   > I have just taken over from Reini Urban as clisp maintainer for Cygwin.
>   >   I can build the tip of the Mercurial repository on both 32-bit and
>   > 64-bit Cygwin [*]
>
> Where can we get this to try out?

My build of clisp-2.49 is already in the Cygwin distribution.  If you 
want to try my build of the tip specifically, I can make it available.

>   > 1. ffcall has not been ported to 64-bit Cygwin.
>   > 2. libsigsegv has not been ported to 64-bit Cygwin.
> Doesn't this affect GC ?

I'm a clisp novice; I don't really know the connection between 
libsigsegv and GC.

> Or are you using a "memory model" that doesn't require it?

I'm just using whatever memory model is built by default.  It seems to 
work, so I haven't had to look into it in detail.

Ken