[Sbcl-devel] SBCL/FreeBSD progress

[Raymond W. <ra...@or...>]

	Acting on a hint from Douglas Crosher (i.e, that foreign
addresses should appear as fixnums to the Lisp memory system, and
hence be 4-byte aligned), I changed x86-assem.S so that the
align_xbyte macros were the same for Linux as for FreeBSD. FreeBSD
3.[0 or 1] switched to ELF as default object format, and
the semantics of the .align assembler directive changed with that.

	I tried changing the alignment macros in x86-assem.S
earlier, but I couldn't see any difference. No wonder, as the build
process crashed before I got that far :-)

	My current problem is that the alien definitions in
unix-glibc.lisp are not a good match for FreeBSD (not a big surprise,
I suspect). I've copied unix.lisp from the CMUCL sources and started
working on that. I unix.lisp *think* this should be used instead of
unix-glibc2.lisp for SBCL (although it may make sense to merge them,
instead.)

	//Raymond.