Re: New Cygwin maintainer => 64bit

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

On 3/1/2015 8:24 PM, Sam Steingold wrote:
>> * Ken Brown <xo...@pb...> [2015-02-25 17:32:40 -0500]:
>>
>>>    > 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.
>
> generational GC requires libsigsegv.

Thanks.  The build on 32-bit Cygwin uses libsigsegv but not generational 
GC, so there's no difference here between the 32-bit and 64-bit 
situations.  I should probably look into why generational GC isn't used 
in the 32-bit case.

Ken